These loose-seated or 'French Stuffed' chairs, with Grecian scrolled and patera-enriched legs, tablet crest-rails incised with Ionic volutes and buhle inlay of arabesque foliage, typifies the French Grecian style promoted by George Bullock (d. 1818) following his 1814 sojourn in Paris, which he popularised at his brother William's Piccadilly museum, The Grecian Rooms. Their pattern survives in the Bullock Wilkinson Tracings, p. 5 (Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery).

Inlaid in première and contre-partie, they are of identical design to the suite supplied by Bullock to Matthew Robinson Boulton for Tew Park, Oxfordshire (illustrated in C. Wainwright et al., George Bullock Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, no. 27). A related set of oak dining-chairs, also supplied to Tew and with similar legs and rake to the back, is identifiable with the '12 oak chairs with panels in back top rail' invoiced by Bullock in 1817. A further set of twelve directly inspired by this model, the dust-cloths stencilled 'G. MORANT NEW BOND ST LONDON', were supplied for the library at Tew in 1841/2 (sold by the Executors of the late Major Eustace Robb, Christie's House Sale, Tew Park, Oxfordshire, 27-9 May 1987, lot 196). The Tew chairs are just visible in an 1839 watercolour of the Morning-Room at Tew, illustrated in Christie's House Sale Catalogue at Tew.