As regards the reproductions of the earlier periods of English furniture, one or two firms may be mentioned whose work was so well carried out in the assimilation of the traditions of our late eighteenth-century makers, that now, with the tone of forty years upon them, they are frequently mistaken for the work of those whose designs they reproduced.

The firm of Wright and Mansfield about the time of the Paris 1867 Exhibition established a great reputation for satinwood furniture, and there is now in the Bethnal Green Museum an important cabinet enriched with plaques of Wedgwood's jasper ware, purchased by our Government at the exhibition.

Jackson and Graham, and the writer's father and partner under the style of Litchfield and Radclyffe, reproduced the designs of sixteenth-century Italian ornamental furniture. Rhodes, of Nixon and Rhodes of Oxford Street, Toms and Luscombe of Bond Street, made good reproductions of French marqueterie and of boullework, and although these firms are named because their work came prominently under the writer's notice, there were many others whose reproductions of earlier models are now frequently described and sold for genuine old pieces.