The chairs have columnar or baluster-rails supporting a serpentined cresting, whose rich Gothic fretting corresponds to patterns in Messrs. Mayhew and Ince's The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 ('Voiders' pl.XV). Its spindled back evolved from early 18th Century hall chairs, while its base-runners designed for garden use, made it particularly appropriate for garden temples. The same chair pattern, without runners, featured at Cassiobury Park and may have been supplied for the library (J. Britton, The History of Cassiobury Park, London, 1837). Similar fret-work can also be seen on the baluster-railed library-steps, in the manner of Mayhew and Ince, that may have formed part of the furnishings introduced to Belton House, Lincolnshire around 1766, when it was occupied by Sir John Cust (d.1770), speaker of the House of Commons (1761-1770). The steps were sold by The Lord Brownlow and the Trustees of the Brownlow Chattels Settlements, Belton House, Christie's house sale, 30 April 1984, lot 113, and again by the Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 56.