Thomas Sheraton in The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopedia, 1804 issued this chair-back pattern with lion-headed and reeded frame. Here however lowered trusses replace the lion-headed finials of the Sheraton pattern, while the spherical stumps of its legs correspond to a pattern in Thomas Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 22). Its 'old English' bobbin-turned legs feature on antiquarian seats executed by the London cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818) and probably designed by the architect Richard Bridgens (d. 1846) (see C. Wainwright et al, George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, pp.76 and 121, fig. 29).
Gillows of Lancaster supplied an ebonised bedroom suite circa 1824 to Mrs. Peter Langford-Brooke for Mere Hall, Cheshire which had bobbin-turned column enrichments. The suite was sold by the Executors of the late Mrs. Helen Langford-Brooke, Mere Hall, Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lots 85-93).