Set of four gilded mahogany sofas; each with straight back, the ends slightly curved; outscrolled arms carved with lotus leaves; seat rail carved with foliage; front legs with lions' paw feet, back legs of sabre design, on sliders; upholstered in green silk damask.

These sofas form part of an extensive suite of seat furniture made for George IV's new private apartments at Windsor Castle, originally consisting of seven sofas, twelve armchairs, thirty-one side chairs, two reading chairs and a writing chair. Forty-one of the fifty-three pieces were intended for the Green Drawing Room, the remainder for the King's Writing Room. Those for the Green Drawing Room were covered in green silk supplied by the mercer W.E. King at a cost of £2 5s. per yard. Exclusive of the silk, the cost of the entire suite was £6,956. As in the case of the suite for the Crimson Drawing Room, the excessive quantity supplied by Morel & Seddon resulted in the removal of some pieces by the early 1830s and their reuse in Buckingham Palace.

The Green Drawing Room, like the adjacent rooms built and furnished for George IV between 1826 and 1830, combined furniture and fittings from Carlton House with new pieces by Morel & Seddon. Badly damaged in the fire of 1992, the room has since been restored and new silk of the original pattern has been woven for walls, curtains and upholstery of the seat furniture, including these sofas.

Catalogue entry adapted from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002