The Reformers, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 250 items of English furniture dating from between 1680 and 1800. This collection comprises chairs, settees, stools, daybeds, side-tables, fire-screens, small tables, bureaus, chests of drawers and looking-glasses which cover the so-called 'Age of Walnut' and 'Age of Mahogany' periods. The chairs in particular form a remarkable assemblage, and include the largest and finest group of caned chairs in the UK, after the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as around 25 upholstered armchairs displaying spectacular tapestry and needlework. Later English furniture is to be found at Pollok House with most pieces predominantly George III, dating from 1760 onwards. These items were part of the historic furnishings of the house, and were included in Anne Maxwell Macdonald's gift of the house and policies in 1966. A very few other items were acquired specifically to help re-furnish the house after this date. The vast majority of this collection was acquired by Sir William Burrell (1861–1958), with many of the items being used by Burrell and his wife, Constance, Lady Burrell, in what was latterly their principal residence, Hutton Castle, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. This can be seen to the richest effect in the recreation of their Drawing Room at the Burrell Collection.
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