The gilt-enriched mahogany settee, designed in the early 19th Century 'antique' style in the French manner, is embellished with scrolled and palmette-wrapped truss supports to the arms, which are capped by Grecian acroteria, palmette-enriched feet with scrolled capitals and seat-rail centred by poetic Grecian-wreath tablets. The capital pattern derives from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.XXIII, while the arm pattern later featured on a settee illustrated by P. and M.A. Nicholson in their Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. The bold antique character of its ornament also relates to seat furniture such as that supplied by Messrs. Morel and Hughes for Northumberland House, London 1823 (see F. Collard, Regency Furniture London, 1987, pl. 12)