A tray-fitted 'Umbrella Stand' of related 'music canterbury' form was featured in J. C. Loudon's Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture, 1833 (no. 726). This oak hall stand, with its chamfered pillars flowered with the English rose, is designed in the romantic medieval style adopted in 1844 by the architect A. W. N. Pugin (d. 1852) for his 'New Palace of Westminster' furnishings. The latter was executed by firms such as Holland & Sons and Gillow of Oxford Street, and the style remained fashionable throughout the 19th Century.