With their characteristic structure and ornamentation, this elegant sofa is closely related to works of the celebrated cabinet-maker, and Master of the Stockholm Furniture-Makers' Guild, Ephraim Stahl (d.1820). Stahl delivered pieces for the courts of King Gustav IV Adolf, Karl XIII and Karl XIV Johan, and his pieces can be found in a number of royal Swedish residences, such as the Royal Palace in Stockholm and the castles of Gripsholm, Tullgarn, and Rosersberg.

The sofa's scrolled laurel-wreathed frame is guarded by the chimerical griffin, a mythical creature sacred to Apollo, which also served as the badge of Karl XIV Johan of Sweden (d.1818). The griffin was introduced on the furniture designed for him for Rosersberg around 1800 under the direction of the Rome-trained architect Gustaf af Sillen. The pattern of orb-capped columnar legs found on the present examples originally derived from an engraving of a sphynx-guarded seat in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801, and it also appears on other seat-furniture at Rosersberg, see ibid., figs. 135 and 138. A related settee and two chairs are in the collection of the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Inv. 35,648 and 71.966) and illustrated S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler Från Svenska Herremanshen, Stockholm, 1935, p. 132, figs. 1124-1127 .