Related patterns for rectilinear chair-backs with 'French' cut-corners and patera-centred banisters like the struts of an antique-tripod were first published in the 2nd edition of A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1789. A set of painted armchairs of related form were supplied for Osterley House, Middlesex in the 1780s (see: M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, no. Q15). However, the pattern may have been invented by Thomas Chippendale Junior (d. 1822) for chairs supplied to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bt. (see: C. Gilbert, Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, fig. 171)