Style notes — Georgian period mainly refers to the second half of the 18th century and up to the 1820s. The style was predominantly neo-classical, that looked back at the ancient Greece and Rome and used those elements in design and decoration. Most Georgian items have straight and very clean lines and elegant repetitive floral patterns.

Facts of Lavish Good to know — traditionally, tough wine stains inside glass decanters were removed by rolling a buckshot; nowadays they are called decanter cleaning rolling balls.