The chairs have their legs fretted with a lozenge-weave trellis that relates to Gothic patterns in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1754, and so are likely to have been introduced to Ickworth, Suffolk by George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (d. 1775), who inherited the estate in 1751. The same frets and chamfered stretchers feature on a suite of seat furniture, comprising splat-back parlour chairs and a settee illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II, 1911 (figs. 276 and 278).