Lot Essay
This table illustrates the fashion for historic revivals and the Picturesque, popularised by Ackerman's Repository of the Arts, 1809-28, and others including Richard Bridgens, Anthony Salvin, and A.W.N Pugin, who incorprated elements of Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean decoration. See Frances Collard Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985.
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