This chair is likely to have come from the same workshops as a set acquired around 1770 for Penicuik House and attributed to Messrs. Francis and William Brodie of Edinburgh, while the reed-enriched and splayed legs correspond to those of a 'Chinese chair' of this period attributed to Messrs. Young, Hamilton and Trotter (see F. Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1983, pls.25 and 46)

The armchair is shown in the photograph of Mrs. Stirling's bedroom at Keir reproduced on page of this catalogue