The chairs, with fretted 'sunflower' medallion backs, are executed in exotic East Indian padouk wood, and correspond to chairs at Cawdor Castle, Inverness-shire (Lord Cawdor, Cawdor Castle, Guidebook, 1992, p. 8, shown on the main staircase). Their X-frames, in the antiquarian or Italian manner, feature on saddle-seated stools supplied about 1760 for Ham House, Richmond (P. Thornton and M. Tomlin, 'The Furnishings and Decoration of Ham House', Furniture History, 1980, fig. 170). A pair of chairs of this pattern, but with sixteen rather than twelve petalled backs, was advertised by Arthur Brett and Sons, Apollo, June 1988.