This chair is derived from designs for 'French Chairs' published in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd.edn., 1762, pl.XXI-XXIII. A Nearly identical armchair was sold from the Late Thomas Ernest Inman, Esq., Christie's London, 29 November 1979, lot 84. Another of this model is in a private collection in Houston, Texas.