The fretted splat's ribbon-scrolls relate to parlour chair patterns published in Robert Manwaring's Chair-Maker's Guide, 1766. Manwaring's plate 43 featured one with central lozenge-trellis, reprinted from Matthias Darly's New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, 1751 (see; E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 82), and this appears on a group of English and American chairs discussed by Robert Kirk in American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, p. 873. The unusual acanthus-wrapped foot combined with the Venus scallop-shell enrichment may indicate Dublin manufacture.

A related chair with lozenge-centred splat from Lotherton Hall is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. 1, p. 83, fig. 68