Designed by the architect Bernard Poyet (1742-1834), as part of a set of seat furniture, including a throne, for the reception of the Emperor Napoleon by the corps législatif after his coronation in 1805. The stool was one of four. Later the set must have been removed to the Château de Saint Cloud, where it was presumably re-upholstered during the period of the Second Empire (1852-71). Another of the set (with modern yellow damask upholstery) was illustrated in 2002 by Michel Beurdely, in Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps (Château de Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2002), p. 100.