This large easy-chair, in the French manner, with its serpentined rails and legs richly carved with ribbon-scrolls and 'roman' leaves, flowers and pendant husks, is designed in the George I 'antique' manner associated with the court-cabinet maker James Moore (d.1726) (see G. Beard, English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, pp.618-619). With its acanthus-wrapped knees and scrolled feet it relates in particular to the suite of seat furniture supplied in 1716 to Erthig Park, Denbighshire by John Belchier (d. 1753), cabinet-maker of St. Paul's Churchyard (see R. Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, revised edition, London, 1954, vol. I, p. 260, fig.104; and G. Beard, op. cit. pp.59,60).