Such Grecian seats, with a central palmette-flanked rosette supported on bow-shaped feet, were popularised by Messrs. Morgan and Saunders of Trafalgar House, Catherine Street, through their illustration of a related window-seat in R. Ackermann, The Repository of Arts, London, 1809 (see: P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interior, London, 1984, p. 39). In view of its location and its relationship to documented furniture provided for Paxton House in 1814, it is tempting to attribute this seat to the famous Edinburgh firm of William Trotter (d. 1834) of Princes Street (see: F. Bamford, Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1983, pls. 52a-59)