Lot Essay
The paw feet on this 'Grecian couch' emerging from reeded lotus-like calyxes are very close to those on a pair of mahogany chaise-longues and a painted and parcel-gilt sofa supplied by Morel and Hughes to Orlando Bridgeman (d. 1825), 2nd Baron Bradford (and later 1st Earl of Bradford) for the library and drawing room at Weston Park, Shropshire in 1806 (P. Rogers, 'A Regency Interior: the Remodelling of Weston Park', Furniture History, Leeds, 1987, p. 32, figs. 2 and 6 and M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p.58, fig. 109).