The design of this chair, with its ribbon-fretted back, displaying Venus' scallop-shell badge, united with bacchic lion feet and festive satyr masks, relects the George II 'picturesque' style introduced in the early 1740s by William de la Cour's Book of Ornament. A related suite of chairs, now at Stourhead, Wiltshire, has been identified with a payment made in 1746 by Henry Hoare (d.1785) to Giles Grendey (d.1780), cabinet-maker and chair-maker of Clerkenwell (see: R. Dodd, Stourhead, London, 1992, p. 21). An intriguing chair at Sir John Soane's Museum also has satyr-masks accompanying bacchic-lion rather than goat feet (see: R.W. Symonds, 'Furniture in the Soane Museum', Country Life, 27 January 1950, pp. 220-221)