This form of medallion-backed chair, with patera tablet and husk festoons, relates to French 'cabriole' chairs executed in the 1770s by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779). Its Etruscan pearl-wreathed rail features on the salon chairs that he supplied about 1778 for Burton Constable, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 112, fig. 192).