Patterns for this style of arch-crested 'Roman' chair featured in the supplement to The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices, 1808. Both the star and flute pattern of the Grecian-curved legs derive from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, while related 'Etruscan-black' inlay, as well as the palmette-enriched splat, featured on a pair of oak chairs sold Christie's New York, 23 April 1988, lot 124. A very similar chair from Caledon, Co. Tyrone, is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. I, p. 307, fig. 262.