The parlour chairs display of tasseled ribbons, whose quatrefoiled knots derive from patterns for 'Ribband Back Chairs', illustrated in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, pl. XV. This pair of armchairs, with their fluted pilasters, scalloped aprons and serpentined legs terminating in eagle-claws, correspond to one from the collection of Prince Zurlo, illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev.ed, 1954, vol. 1 p. 243, fig. 114. Another armchair of this pattern, but lacking the scallops, formed part of the G.B. Croft-Lyons Bequest, presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1926 (H. Cescinky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, vol. II, fig. 185). A related suite of six chairs and a settee, acquired in 1883 for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, is illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, figs. 176 and 177. A pair of armchairs of this model but without the lappeted apron, were sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 23 April 1988, lot 129.