This arch-crested banqueting-hall chair is designed in a robust George II 'antiquarian' manner with Tuscan pillared arm-supports and flute-fretted splats in the manner of Roman altar-tripods. Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed. 1762, pl. XVIII, illustrated patterns for saddle-seated hall chairs. The present chair also relates in character to hall chairs supplied for Hartwell House, Oxfordshire (one, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 April 2000, lot 154 (£35,250)). It is almost identical to a pair sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 June 2001, lot 38 (£58,750).

Chairs with related pierced vertical splats were supplied to Rousham Park, Oxfordshire and are illustrated in the Great Parlour, Rousham Park, Guide Book, n.d. A closely related set of twelve chairs [to the latter set at Rousham] was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 July 2000, lot 57 (£190,750).