It is possible that this chair, which in several respects is very close indeed to chairs from Eaton Hall, is also from that house. The Gothic-cusped arm-supports and trellised rail feature on a bergere that was designed for the house built at Eaton Hall by William Porden (d.1822). The view of the Drawing Room from J.C. Buckler's Views of Eaton Hall, 1826, is illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 172. It shows bergeres of a very similar type indeed to the present lot but with plainer toprails. A similar bergere to those in the view is illustrated ibid., p. 175. The justification for the tentative suggestion that this bergere is also from Eaton Hall is the fact that the mixture of Gothic ornament and foliate toprail, whilst apparently different in style to the purely Gothic bergeres, is much closer to the sofas from the same room which combine the Gothic and more foliate styles in a very similar way. One of the sofas was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 17 November 1988, lot 51.
Much of the furniture that Porden had proposed was executed by Gillows. Almost all the Regency furniture was dispersed during subsequent remodellings of the house.