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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 329032, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful, Billy. And so good you helped the &#039;young man&#039;. Unbelievable what some people will do.</p><p><br /></p><p>That barley twist design was very popular in the second half of the 19th century.</p><p>It is originally Manueline, a late Gothic Portuguese style, exported to every part of the world where the Portuguese went. So just about everywhere.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about French or Belgian. Belgian floral motifs, like those on the legs, would be more rounded and refined, not with those straight edges.</p><p>Since the introduction of the barley twist in the English court by Portuguese Catherine of Bragança, who married king Charles II, it became very popular in Britain and in the British colonies. Where the style was revived in the 19th century as well.</p><p>So this lectern/book stand/music stand could have been made in North America.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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