Lot Essay
A very closely related large settee was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 24 February 1994, lot 112 (£8,970).
This form of scroll-arm sofa with flowered tablets and reeded stump feet relates to a Grecian sofa pattern in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 73.
The same pattern of elongated scrolled flute appears on a suite of George IV painted seat-furniture originally from Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire, and almost certainly supplied by George Seddon. The suite was sold in these Rooms by Lord Brabourne, 4 July 1991, lot 50-61. A pair of long banquettes of a related frame pattern were supplied by Thomas Chippendale Junior to Stourhead in 1804.
This form of scroll-arm sofa with flowered tablets and reeded stump feet relates to a Grecian sofa pattern in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 73.
The same pattern of elongated scrolled flute appears on a suite of George IV painted seat-furniture originally from Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire, and almost certainly supplied by George Seddon. The suite was sold in these Rooms by Lord Brabourne, 4 July 1991, lot 50-61. A pair of long banquettes of a related frame pattern were supplied by Thomas Chippendale Junior to Stourhead in 1804.