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This piece of furniture comes from a time when the 18th century restraint in furniture design was replaced with something altogether more eye catching.
Not perhaps quite as outrageous as the French style, which combined striped veneers and marquetry inlays all smothered in sparkling ormolu mounts, but then the English were always rather more restrained with their furniture design than the continentals.