This window seat is a highly interesting expression of the synthesis of the exotic aestethic influences current in mid-eighteenth-century England. 

It is a rare design, with gothic clustered legs resembling Tuscan colums or even Chinese bamboo. These are joined by C-scroll brackets to the similarly turned rails with collars carved with fronds, paterae and further C-scrolls. The legs have collars and block feet with Vitruvian decoration and fish scales, two Neo-Palladian references that add further complexity to this otherwise very modish 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.