The sofa, which probably accompanied 'Roman' medallion-backed chairs, is designed in the George III French antique manner introduced in the 1770s, and popularised by Messrs, A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s, Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. It is embellished with flowered patera on both its rail and the collars banding its fluted columnar legs beneath palm-wrapped capitals. The pattern of its serpentined arms rising from columnar legs relates to a suite of seat furniture supplied for Chirk Castle, Denbighshire in the 1770s and attributed to the Golden Square firm of John Mayhew and William Ince (C. Gilbert & G. Beard, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Leeds, 1986, p. 596).