This armchair, whose seat frame and legs relate to the 'cockpen' pattern, is illustrated in situ at Keir House, Perthshire in a 1950 photograph, illustrated in Christie's 1995 sale catalogue (Christie's Sale of the Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir at Keir Mains, 22-24 May 1995, p.40). It is likely to have come from the same workshops as a set of related armchairs acquired around 1770 for Penicuik House and attributed to Messrs Francis and William Brodie of Edinburgh (F. Bramford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, 1983, p.46). Some 'cockpen' pattern chairs, formerly at Keir, are illustrated by A. Rowan, 'Keir-Perthshire-II', Country Life, 14 August 1975, p.393, fig.7.