Lot Essay
This form of twin-chairback settee with its vase-shaped splat and shepherd's crook arm is related to a later example executed in mahogany in the Gerstenfeld Collection (E. Lennox-Boyd ed., Masterpieces of English Furniture, London, 1998, cat. no. 53, p. 219), and formerly at Compton Castle, Somerset, sold in these Rooms, 21 November 1985, lot 164.