These stools, with their addorsed 'griffin'-supports comprised of winged eagle-heads emerging from lion-feet banded by acanthus foliage, relate both to an 'antique' style library-chair with griffin monopodiae published in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. 46, and also to the type of George II lion-headed stool illustrated, H. Cescinsky, English
Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, 1929, p.251.