The chair's Grecian-tablet rail first featured in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 1973 (pl. XXVII), while its trellised enrichments and entwined-ribbon splats relate to parlour chair patterns illustrated in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholster's Guide, London, 3rd. ed., 1794.
A set of twenty closely-related dining-chairs was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 17 April 1997, lot 162 and a set of eight dining-chairs with similar triple pierced splat was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 12 July 1991, lot 304.