These chairs with their pagoda-swept crests, paled-ribbon backs with lozenged compartments and Grecian-fretted corners correspond to a pattern for a 'Chinese Chair in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1763, pl.XXVI. According to Chippendale, such parlour chairs were 'very proper for a Lady's Dressing Room, especially if it is hung with India [i.e. Chinese] paper. They will likewise suit Chinese Temples.'

These chairs formed part of the furnishings of Eagle House, Batheaston, Somerset. The contents of the house were sold on behalf of the late Miss M. Blathwayt by Curtis and Henson on on 29-30 March 1962. Mr. William Blathwayt (d.1952) may have inherited the chairs, which were then acquired by Mallett.