This chair with its Grecian klismos back and bolted tablet rail derives from the armchair designed by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1831) for the Egyptian room of his Duchess Street mansion/museum and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.8. These features combined with the scrolled and palmette-enriched splat, derived from Greek cippi, appear on a suite of chairs at Longleat, Wiltshire, which have recently been identified as the work of the celebrated Bond Street firm of George Oakley (d.1840). (See: The Marchioness of Bath, Longleat, 1949, p.21).