The black and gold japanned chairs have Grecian rails with French-fashion love-trophy tablets displaying billing doves on Cupid's veil-draped quiver. With their fretted rails and reed-enriched columnar frames, they relate to early 19th Century chairs bearing the stamp of John Gee (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, figs. 376-394). A pair of closely related chairs was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 25 February 1994, lot 175.