This chair with its ribbon-twined back fretted with Venus's scallop-shell badge united with Jupiter's eagle-claws emerging from acanthus-wrapped legs is designed in the George II 'antique' manner popularised by William de la Cour's Book of Ornament, 1741. The celebrated chairs of this pattern at Stourhead, Wiltshire are likely to have been supplied in the 1740's to Henry Hoare by Giles Grendley cabinet-maker of St. Paul's Covent Garden (see R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, 1977, p.143, fig.107). The pattern is discussed in C. Gilbert Catalogue of Furniture at Temple, Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 1978, no.326