The parlour chairs, japanned Elizabethan-black, are designed in the early 19th Century 'Windsor' Gothic manner promoted by James Wyatt (d. 1813), architect to George III. They have cluster-columned legs, pinnacled-uprights and arcaded backs flowered with quatrefoiled frets, while their Grecian-scrolled arms feature on a suite of twelve parlour armchairs supplied in 1798 for Soho House, Birmingham by James Newton (d. 1825) (see G. Ellwood, 'James Newton', Furniture History, 1995, fig. 40). A related suite of chairs are exhibited in the gallery of Croft Castle, Herefordshire (D. Uhlman, Croft Castle, 1991, p. 19).