The chairs 'picturesque' splats, arcaded with gothic frets wrapped in Roman foliage, derives from a parlour-chair pattern invented by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) and issued in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed, 1762, pl. XIV.

A set of eleven chairs with closely related backs was advertised by Bruford & Son of Exeter in Connoisseur Magazine (Jan 1922), as 'Fine Chippendale Chairs from the Palce of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells'. Norman Adams Ltd offered a further related set with the provenance of Castle Hill, Englefield Green Surrey, illustrated in their 1985 Yearbook, pl. 13. A further chair from the collection of th renowned furniture historian Percy Macquoid is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, p. 279, fig 167. A further pair armchairs were offered Sotheby's London, Important English Furniture, 22 November 2006.