These chair frames, with arched supports, correspond to one illustrated by the architect William Chambers in Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757, pl.XIII, as being suitable for Chinese garden buildings. However their bergère form and fan-pattern tablets relate to chair patterns published in the 1790s by Hepplewhite & Co. and Thomas Sheraton. The same pattern chairs, with more decorative seat-rails, appear to have formed part of the exotic furnishings introduced to the chinoiserie Royal Pavilion, Brighton, created by the architect Henry Holland (d.1806) about 1801 for George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. (C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1961, pl.24a.

Related Cantonese chairs and their accompanying vase-stands, which may have been purchased by John Crace (d.1819) from an East India Company trader about 1802 for the Marine Pavilion, Brighton, of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV, featured in the Saloon and Red and Blue Drawing Rooms, in John Nash's Views of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, 1826.