The design of the backs is inspried by those illustrated in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. ed., 1762, pls. XVII and XVIII. A set of hall chairs closely related to pl. XVII of the Director is at Wilton House, Salisbury (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 190. A pair of hall chairs of this model and retaining a painted coronet and crest were sold from the estate of Frances H. Horne, Sotheby's New York, 16-17 April 1993, lot 389