This chair back pattern with its ribbon-tablets tied at the corners and centered by lozenged compartments between paired rails derives from Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, Ist ed. 1754, pl. XXIV. While Chippendale noted that such chairs suited Chinese Temples, he also explained that his 'Designs of chairs after the Chinese manner...are very proper for a lady's Dressing Room, especially if it is hung with India (Chinese) paper. Further related patterns feature in A New Book of Chinese, Gothic and Modern Chairs, issued in 1750 by Matthias Darly (fl. c.1740-1775), who shared Northumberland Court premises with Thomas Chippendale and engraved the majority of the plates for his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754.