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Queen Anne
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Stylistic term applied to architecture and to a small number of the leading crafts in the reign of Anne (1702–14), among them furniture characterized by cabriole legs and *Huguenot silver. The phrase is now used also of an architectural revival, beginning in the late 1860s, of which Norman *Shaw was a leading practitioner. This took many of the details of the Dutch-influenced English architecture of the late 17C (earlier than Anne) and exaggerated them in a fanciful manner. The characteristic ingredients are red brick, Dutch gables, tall dormer windows and high chimneys.
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