The chair pattern, with its Grecian-scrolled and reed-enriched frame, relates to one illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807 (pl.XL, no.6). Its tablet back and voluted truss-supports feature on a suite of furniture supplied in the early 1800s for the Earl of Harewood's London house, and attributed to Nicholas Morel and Robert Hughes, whose partnership was established in 1805 (P. Macquoid, The History of English Furniture, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, fig. 243). An armchair, likely to have come from the latter suite, was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 12 December 1996, lot 85.