The stools' serpentined legs with acanthus-scrolled brackets and voluted feet relate to a 1753 pattern in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754 (pl. XII). The acanthus-wrapped leg terminating in voluted feet also featured on a suite of chairs supplied in 1753 for The Vyne, Hampshire by Messrs. Vile and Cobb (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 27).