This form of bergère chair was named a 'curricle', after the Roman magistrate or consul's seat, by Thomas Sheraton in his The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803 and the name was adopted by Gillows of London and Lancaster for five supplied between 1811 and 1812 to Wilbraham Egerton for Cheshire, intended for bedrooms or dressing-rooms (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pl. 16A and S. Bourne, 'Gillow Chairs and Fashion', Exhibition Catalogue, Blackburn, 1991, p. 32-33).

A related bergère with hipped sabre legs was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 25 February 1993, lot 37, and another similar one with sabre legs was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 11 October 1990, lot 59.