With their trellis-backs derived from antique athenienne tripods these chairs were inspired by the suite supplied by Georges Jacob (maitre, in 1765) for Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet and are closely related to the set of 'twenty mahogany trellis chairs, the back legs reeded and fluted, the seats covered with best leather', supplied by the cabinetmaker David Bruce, (d.1923) of Aldersgate Street for the Governor's Room at the Bank of England, the design of that set is usually associated with Sir. John Soane (d.1837), both because of his role as architect at the Bank of England from 1788 to 1833 and because he himself owned a pair of armchairs which are still in the Soane Museum, (see P. McQuoid) and R. Edwards The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, revised edition 1954, Vol 1, p.307, fig 264