The elegant 'antique' shield chair-back appears to have been introduced to furniture design in the 1770s by the architect James Wyatt (d.1813). The Prince of Wales' ostrich feather badge was popularised by A. Hepplewhite and Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide of 1788. The pattern is discussed by John Cornforth in Country Life, 18 February 1993, p.49, with reference to a painted board decorated with a chair back of this design that appears to have served as a specimen for different painting schemes.