The rustic wooden saddle-seated garden chair, with spindle-linked legs and fret back in the gothic manner, relates to Windsor or stick chairs such as that illustrated in R. Edwards, English Chairs, London, 1950, fig. 79. This chair-back with flowers and festoon drapery framing an open escutcheon, which may have been intended to display a coat-of-arms, such as those illustrated in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. edn., 1763, pl.XVIII, and appears on hall chairs such as those at Wilton House, Salisbury, which may have been provided by Thomas Chippendale (see: A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 190)