The Louis Seize fashioned armchair, embellished with Grecian palms, has a tablet back wreathed by a pearled ribbon-guilloche and pilaster legs terminating in reed-clustered spheres. Its antique or Etruscan style relates to that promoted by Robert and James Adam's Works in Architecture, 1774, and in particular to their Derby House commode, executed by Messrs. Mayhew and Ince, upholsterers and cabinet-makers of Golden Square (see L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 23, fig. 197). Peace and Plenty is celebrated by a floral-wreath medallion displayed on the cresting, flower-festooned legs, and trophies of Ceres' flower-filled cornucopiae framed by flowered patterae on the rails. The chair, originally japanned white and green, forms part of a suite that is likely to have been executed by Mayhew and Ince. It was probably commissioned in the mid-1770s by the Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot, who succeeded as third Baron Talbot of Hensol and was created Viscount Ingestre and Earl Talbot in 1784 (d. 1793). In 1773 he is recorded as purchasing vases from Matthew Boulton (see N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, p. 237). Two of the suite of chairs are illustrated in situ at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire (op. cit.).

A chair of this model in beechwood with its original decoration is illustrated in M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture, The Georgian Period (1750-1830), London, 1953, p. 61, fig. 14.