The Grecian-scrolled sofa, with antique-fluted stump feet, has an arched cresting of richly sculpted Roman foliage in the George IV 'Louis Quatorze' fashion promoted by architects such as Lewis Wyatt (d. 1852). In the 1820s, the fashion was adopted in particular by Messrs Gillows of London and Lancaster and featured, for instance, in one of their designs for a French bed, with scrolled ends fitted with bolster cushions (J. Morley, Regency Design, London, 1993, fig. 203).