With its scrolled supports, classical reeding and sabre legs this "Grecian Couch" is the epitome of Classical fashion pervasive in Maryland after 1815. "Grecian" was the most frequently used descriptive term for furniture in period documents. The design for this couch may be based upon plate 50 of Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Directory (London, 1803). This couch is similar to that made by William Camp for J.I. Cohen, Jr. (1798-1869) in 1819, and is illustrated and discussed in Gregory R. Weidman et al., Classical Maryland 1815-1845 (Baltimore, 1993), pp. 111-113, fig. 135. Cohen's couch and its mirror-image mate have always been accompanied by the bill of sale. This piece is nearly identical in form and proportion, but differs in that the termini are carved rosettes, and the sabre legs are headed by acanthus-carving.