pseudo-imitation

Updated: January 6, 2026

There was more honesty of purpose in the old art-workers, who never swerved from a leading principle. Hence the educated eye can at once detect a piece of genuine old decorative furniture from a Wardour Street made-up bit of pseudo-imitation.

F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt - Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places: Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting,: Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture