This chair pattern derives from various elements in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Encyclopaedia of 1804-6. Its Grecian-scrolled legs surmounted by volutes, echoing the upholstery, derive from a 'parlour chair' pattern published in January 1805, while their caducean- entwined serpent back featured on a lyre-backed 'parlour chair' and the bacchic lion-monopodia arms on a couch-ended bed, both of which had been published the previous year. These chairs, formerly in the possession of Temple Williams Ltd. were illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed, 1965, fig. 22 and possibly in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p 216.