The design of these chairs shows the strength of the influence of the published designs of the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1831). The X-frame back derives from a tabouret pattern by Charles Percier, through a chair in Hope's Duchess Sreet mansion museum (Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, pl. 11, nos. 3 and 4). The actual chair from Duchess Street was sold from the collection of the late Mrs. Marjorie Beatrix Farbarns, in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 87, and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
A set with similar backs is visible in the Small Dining Room of Oulton Park, Cheshire, in H. Avray Tipping and C. Hussey, English Homes, Period IV, vol. II, London, 1928, p. 218