A pattern for a Grecian scroll-armed drawing-room sofa supported by monopodiae feet of griffin, sacred to Apollo, god of Poetry and Music, was engraved in 1805 by George Smith, Upholsterer to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV and published in his Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, (pl. 65). As the chimerical griffin was sacred to Apollo, god of Poetry, the dolphin supports could allude to their mythological role in supporting the poet Arion. The Smith pattern may have been adopted by the celebrated New York cabinet-maker Duncan Phyfe (d.1854) for the related sofa supplied in 1816 to James Lefferts Brinkerhoff (see J. Sloane, 'A Duncan Phyfe Bill and the Furniture it Documents', Antiques, May 1987, p. 1107, pls. 1 and 11). Another sofa featuring flowered Ionic volutes, dolphin arms and griffin feet is in the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, Canada and attributed to the Aberdeen-born cabinet-maker Alexander Lawrence (d.1843), who started work in Saint John in 1818.