This form of tub bergère chair, according to Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, was named a 'curricle', as it was formed like a carriage seat. A mahogany klismos-legged curricle supplied by Messrs. Gillow of Lancaster to Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1812 is illustrated in S. Bourne, Gillow Chairs and Fasion, Blackburn, 1991, p. 32. Its studded tablet and incised klismos leg derived from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Although the pattern was popular with Gillows, who were involved with providing trade valuations in 1830 for furniture recently supplied for Windsor Castle by Messrs. Morel and Seddon, it seems likely that it was the latter who provided this chair. Nicholas Morel of Great Marlborough Street, having formed a partnership with George Seddon, had obtained the post of 'Upholsterer in Ordinary' to King George IV in 1828.