The chairs have serpentined arms and fretted pilaster legs terminating in Doric guttae such as feature on chair patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, pls. XXI and XXIV. Their form and acanthus-enrichments derive from a celebrated suite of furniture formerly at St. Giles's House, Dorset, which was described in 1855 as 'very valuable and fine by Chippendale (Anthony, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury's A Few Traditions of the Mansion and Estate received from my father).