The journeyman's IM stamp corresponds with that found on a group of high quality chairs, including those with related banded legs provided about 1820 by Thomas and George Seddon of Aldersgate Street for Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire. The Brodsworth chairs were exhibited at Christie's in 1991 having been negitiated to the nation with the other contents of the house (see: J.Hardy and F.Russell, 'Patronage Preserved', Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1991, no.57)
Its antique style with tablet crest-rail and reeded back curving into the klismos-scrolled feet fetaured in a pattern for parlour chairs in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl.6. The tablet's palmette-scrolled carving derives from Thomas Hope's Household Furniturew and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.XXV