This chair pattern was described as having a 'double-rail hooped back' when Herbert Cescinsky illustrated a related example from Forde Abbey, Dorset in his English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1909, vol. II, fig. 9. A pair of the Forde Abbey chairs also appeared in the same year in Charles Latham's article on the house published in In English Homes, London, vol. III, p.127. They are likely to have been amongst the furniture introduced to the Abbey following its purchase in 1863 by Mrs. Bertram Evans (d. 1890). The present chair shares many of the Forde chairs' features including the additional foliage growing up the splat. A related vase-splat pattern, also with Roman acanthus issuing from flowered volutes, features on a set of chairs bearing the label adopted in the early 1740s by the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780) (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, London, 1996, fig. 434).

A related chair belonging to the Jobson family from Abbeville, Co. Dublin, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 12 November 1998, lot 143 and another is illustrated in The Knight of Glin, Irish Furniture, The Irish Heritage Series: 16, Dublin, 1978, p. 23.