A very fine early George III mahogany window seat, the out scrolling arms above detailed carved cluster column legs with pierced angle brackets terminating in imbricated block feet.
This window seat is strongly influenced by the Chinese and Gothic styles popularised by Thomas Chippendale’s famous Director of 1754.
It is a fine example of the combination of different styles in a single design for which he is renowned. The classically Gothic cluster column legs are formed of Chinese bamboo, collared with panels of imbrication, paterae and fronding and supported at the corners with C-scrolls, a hallmark of Rococo design.
Profusely decorated with motifs seen not only in furniture, but architecture and wallpaper, this window seat was an expression of sophisticated taste in the eighteenth century.