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See Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th century Furniture Design, A.C.C., 1977, p.508, for a similar design by Bridgens dated 1839
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a victorian oak library table in the manner of Richard Bridgens
The rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled black leather lined writing surface, with a gadrooned border, above a frieze carved with paterae and dentil-mouldings and fitted with two drawers, with drop pendants to the corners, on end standards centred with paterae, the bracket feet joined by a flattened undertier centred with a carved paterae
60in. (152.5cm.) wide, 30in. (76cm.) high, 34in. (86.5cm.) deep
The rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled black leather lined writing surface, with a gadrooned border, above a frieze carved with paterae and dentil-mouldings and fitted with two drawers, with drop pendants to the corners, on end standards centred with paterae, the bracket feet joined by a flattened undertier centred with a carved paterae
60in. (152.5cm.) wide, 30in. (76cm.) high, 34in. (86.5cm.) deep