Lot Essay
This form of hall-seat, designed with Grecian-scrolled and reeded arms, patera-enriched rail and tapering columnar legs relates to a sofa pattern published in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts in July 1809, and illustrated in P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, pl. 6. The paterae, combined with this form of reed-ringed leg, also feature on a chair design executed by George Bullock (d.1818) shortly after the establishment of his Mona marble and furniture works at 4 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, in 1814. The tracing is preserved at Birmingham City Museum and is illustrated in C. Wainwright, et. al., George Bullock, London, 1988, fig. 50