This pair of hall stools may be part of a larger set commissioned by Sir Mark Pleydell (d. 1761) for Coleshill House, Berkshire. An identical stool from Coleshill, painted on the seat with the coat-of-arms of the Earls of Radnor is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.edn., vol.III, 1954, p.182, fig. 67. The design of those stools, with their hollowed and voluted seats on scrolled and arched supports, relates most closely to a pattern publish in Robert Manwaring's Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, 1765 (pl. 18). They are also closely related to a large set supplied by Thomas Chippendale for Christ Church Library at Oxford in 1764 (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol.II, 1978, p.213, fig.386).