Article: English furniture 1720-1880: Michael Pick reviews the recent highlights of a market where provenance, a designer's or maker's name and a dash of the unusual or intriguing are all eagerly sought after, and in combination make for record prices.(Collector's Focus)

In each area of the art market we have come to expect that the best examples are those now most in demand. The middle-ground of good brown English furniture is still sought after, but is the rare and fine that now more than ever commands the highest price. This is a reflection of the comment made after the Sotheby's sale in 2004 of the Vermeer Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, that a recent discovery and a new attribution raised its desirability in line with Sotheby's successful sale of the Rubens Massacre of the Innocents for a record price in 2002.

In English furniture, the sale of the Doris Duke collections at Christie's in New York in July 2004 gave ...

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