A very similar suite of seat furniture supplied by Gillow's of Lancaster to Wilbraham Egerton at Tatton Park in the 1820s and considered to be one of the earliest examples in the country of the rococo revival (illustrated in I. Grant, 'The Machine Age', The History of Furniture, 1976, p. 194). A related pair was sold Christie's London, 27 June 1985, lot 85 and are now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, W15&a-1985