The chair's serpentined and 'picturesque' frame, with antique-fretted 'vase' splat, is embellished in the George II Roman manner. With its Bacchic lion feet and Roman eagles issuing from Roman acanthus on the crest, arms and legs, it relates to a 1740s parlour chair pattern illustrated in the trade-sheet of the London chair-makers Landall & Gordon (see A. Heal, The London Furniture Makers, 1953, p. 93). The Piccadilly firm adopted the parlour chair for its shop-sign, where it was supported by the mythical eagle-lion 'griffin' recalling Apollo. This Arcadian hunter deity was associated with poetry, and so his statue served for the decoration of rooms of entertainment. Likewise, this chair, with triumphal palms tied to the arms, is appropriately decorated for a dining parlour or banqueting room. Its carving is typical of mid-18th Century Dublin work, such as can be found on a compass-fronted armchair at Malahide Castle, Ireland, which includes related elements (see G.A. Kenyon, The Irish Furniture at Malahide, Dublin, 1994, pp. 92, 93)