19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY EARLIER

A related palm-flowered medallion features in the splat of a chair in the Victorian and Albert Museum, while similar eagle-headed arms feature on a walnut writing-chair presented to the Museum in 1924 (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, Q/2 and R. Edwards, A History of the English Chair, London, 1951, no. 56).