The cresting of the first chair, imbricated and shell-scalloped in allusion to Venus, relates to those of a suite of chairs, stamped 'WF', almost certainly supplied to the 1st Earl Poulett (d. 1743), for Hinton House, Somerset in the early l740s, and traditionally associated with Giles Grendy (d. 1780), sold by George, 8th Earl Poulett (d. 1973), Sotheby's London, 1 November 1968, lot 58, and illustrated in T. Lennox Boyd (ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture, The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 208, fig. 34.