The serpentine-framed and ribbon-splat chair with animal feet emerging from 'arabesque' acanthus-scrolls first featured in William de la Cour's Book of Ornament, 1741, but these chairs, which are embellished with Zeus' eagle-heads and claws have various details, such as the loop-pattern back combined with flowered acanthus and confronted c-scroll cartouches, which relate most closely to the parlour chair patterns published in Robert Manwaring's Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765 (see: E. White, Pictorian Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, pp. 59, 76 & 77). Their richly carved frames relate to that of a cabinet-on-stand reputed to have been supplied by Messrs Gillow of Lancaster to the Bellot family of Manchester; and as these chairs likewise have a Lancashire provenance, it is possible that they too can be attributed to Gillow (see: C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. I, pp. 50-51, no. 37.