The chair's scrolled Grecian- 'klismos' form relates to that of chairs commissioned around 1805 for Soho, Birmingham by the industrialist Matthew Boulton and derived in part form an antique throne illustrated in G. B. Piranesi's Vasi, candelabri, cippi e sarcofagi, Rome, 1778 (M. Snodin, Designs and the Decorative Arts, London 2001, fig. 62); and to an 1805 'Parlour Chair' pattern in Thomas Sheraton's, Encyclopaedia (pl. 10). With its tablet rail japanned with palm-flowered compartments it relates in particular to a chair designed about 1800 by the connoisseur Thomas Hope and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. XXV no.4).