The seat-design with scrolled Grecian-couch supports, ribbon-guilloche frieze and palmette-centred scrolled pediment to the panelled back, with its tablet centred by a painted medallion within a festoon drapery veil derives in simplified form from hall seats at Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. The latter, bearing the Belmore crest, are thought to have been supplied in about 1797 by the Dublin firm of Kidd to designs by James Wyatt (illustrated in situ by G. Mott, 'Castle Coole', Irish Arts Review, 1990, p. 90). Their Grecian character corresponds to the 'antique' style promoted by the connoisseur Tomas Hope in the furnishings of his Duchess Street mansion/museum around 1800, and later popularised by his guide/pattern book Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807; in particular the cresting relates to that of his Grecian sofa, pl. 18