The palmette-enriched and voluted arm-supports, and flowered-tablet above reeded columnar legs, relate to the George IV antique or Grecian style that continued to be popular into the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. A settee with similar features is illustrated in the Designs for Furniture catalogue published by William Smee of Finsbury Pavement in 1850 (see: E.Joy, British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 298).