The 'Copped Hall' suite of George II needlework seat-furniture became particularly famous in 1924 when it was published in Herbert Cescinsky The Old World House, having earlier been published in Percy Macquoid's Dictionary of English Furniture. In 1955 the original suite of twelve chairs and a settee were acquired throught the Ernest Cook bequest by the Leicester City Museum. Two of the chairs were then lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum and were subsequently published by Ralph Edwards in English Chairs, London, 1965, no. 61. The name of the suite was acquired in 1909 when E.J. Withes acquired them for Copped Hall, Essex (see: 'Furniture from Copped Hall'. Country Life, 18 November 1971, p. 1376)