A set of chairs of a very similar design were sold by the Trustees of the Warwick Castle Resettlement, in these Rooms, 21 March 1968, lot 115. Those chairs lack the foliate clasps at the top of the backs, and the patera at the centre of the front seat-rail was not inset, but in all other respects the design was the same. Like the single chair that is lot 129 in this sale, these twelve show many constructional characteristics of chairs by Thomas Chippendale but their design does not quite accord with provenanced suites. Like lot 129, these twelve have scrolled arms descending directly into the tops of the legs; this is not thought to be characteristic of Chippendale at all. There is a payment to Mayhew and Ince that totals #180 in the 2nd Earl of Warwick's account with Hoare's bank and similarities between these chairs and a suite almost certainly supplied by the firm to Cobham Hall, Kent, tentatively suggest a connection