The upholstered backs and seats are covered in red silk damask and joined by scrolled arms. The serpentine rails and oval backs with carved fluted detail and with attractive oval inlays; elegant turned and fluted legs headed with acanthus carving and estruscan scroll rings.

Both chairs are period and obviously made in the same workshop, but the upholstered back of one of them is three-quarters of an inch different to the other both horizontally and vertically. The overall width and height of both chairs is the same.

For a similar chair with the same fine carved details & undoubtedly by the same maker, see V&A collection (Victoria and Albert Museum), Museum number 1458-1904. Also see Helen Hayward and Pat Kirkham's book William and John Linnell: page 46, illustration 90 which shows a chair supplied by Linnell for Inveraray Castle with many of the same features notably the serpentine front rails with carved fluting, the shaped arm supports and the overall proportions incorporating the oval back.

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