The front of their legs with paired columnar supports conjoined by rustic blocks, with the dolphin-scale attribute of the nature goddess, relates to the garden seat architecture with drip-work blocks, published in Daniel Marot's, Nouveaux Fauteuils, c. 1703 and included his Oeuvres, reissued in Amsterdam, 1713. The bamboo-like legs and lower seat-rail linked by arched brackets and the raking columnar back legs relate to William Chambers' Chinese furniture illustrated in his, Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757. The gothic blind-fret reserve panels in the seat-rails also relate to Chinese table pattersn such as those by Messrs. Edwards and Darly, illustrated in their ew Book of Chinese Designs, 1754. Appropriately many of their features appear on a Chinese tea table from Callaly Castle, Northumberland, included in Christie's house sale of 22 September 1986, lot 111.
Their columnar supports with 'scale' blocks also appear on a suite of chairs with floral petit point upholstery, which appear to have formed part of Christopher Griffith's late 1760s refurnishing of Padworth House, Berkshire, sold by Lady Hague, Sotheby's & Co., 23 June 1961, lot 152. (Illustrated, A. Tipping, 'Padworth House', English Homes, period vi, vol. 1, 1929, pp.194-5).

A suite of furniture with related 'Chinese' frames was supplied to the 2nd Early of Besborough (d.1793) for Ingress Abbey, Kent, which had been improved under Sir William Chamber's supervision (d.1796), of which the settee is in the V & A Museum (illustrated, R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1954, vol. III, fig. 33), and two pairs of armchairs were sold Christie's New York, 17 October 1987, lots 143 and 144.

The fanciful frames of this suite, appropriate to the flowered upholstery, typify the Chinese Chippendale style, and both the multi-block foot and the 'gothic' fret feature in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director, 1754, pls. xix and cxxviii.