OF THE SAME PATTERN AS THE 'DUKE OF LEEDS' SOFA (LOT 66)

The elegantly serpentined sofa is designed in the George II 'French' fashion and relates closely to the Hornby Castle sofa (lot 66), attributed to either Saunders & Bradshaw or Whittle & Norman. The frame's lozenge-trellised ground follows the French fashion adopted by Bradshaw's namesake William Bradshaw (d. 1775) who participated in the manufacture of tapestry upholstery in the French style, and is credited with the manufacture of a suite of tapestried seat furniture, with richly carved and trellised frames, supplied in the early 1740s for Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire (J. Cornforth, 'How the French style touched the Georgian Drawing Room', Country Life, 6 January 2000, pp. 52-54, fig. 1).