These parlour chairs with hermed feet and rectangular backs with hollowed-pilaster rails relate in character both to patterns published by Messrs. Hepplewhite & Co. in their Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1794, and to chairs supplied in 1792 by Messrs. Mayhew and Ince for the Westminster Fire Office (see: H. Roberts, 'Mayhew and Ince and the Westminster Fire Office', Furniture History, Leeds, 1993, p. 137). The chairs probably formed part of the Georgian furniture supplied for the Bluecoat School, Liverpool, which was founded in 1717. They are likely to have been manufactured by Messrs Gillow of London and Lancaster, who supplied related parlour armchairs for Tatton Park, Cheshire.