John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906), a rare Gothic Revival oak armchair made by Doveston, Bird & Hull, in the original brass nailed embossed dark red upholstery, stamped Doveston, Bird & Hull Manufacturers under front rail/Note: This design was produced for the 1851 Great Exhibition/Literature: Michael Whiteway and Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Design, London 1993, illus. p. 84. Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London 1987, p. 104, illus. 220 and p. 105, illus. 227.