Antiquarians of the early 19th Century associated spiral-columned Indian ebony chairs with Queen Elizabeth I. These chairs relate to 17th Century style patterns such as those issued by Thomas King in Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabeth and Louis Quatorze Style, 1835. They also relate to 'Elizabethan' chairs illustrated in watercolours executed in the mid-19th Century and assembled in a book by the High Wycome chair-maker, Amos Catton (C. Gilbert, 'The Amos Catton Pattern Book', Regional Furniture, vol. V, 1991. p.67, fig. 13).