拍品 30
30
A walnut 'Whatnot'
A walnut 'Whatnot'

DESIGNED BY J.P. SEDDON, 1860

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A walnut 'Whatnot'
Designed by J.P. Seddon, 1860
The four-tiered corner cabinet with finely carved upper frieze and elaborate finials, above four triangular shelves each with back-panels pierced with hexafoil roundels, slender carved and fluted capitols on either side, the whole with gilt and painted decoration
67½in. (171.5cm.) high; 38in. (96.5cm.) wide; 19¾in. (50.2cm.) deep

拍品專文

Cf: Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London, 1987, p. 104, pl. 222
The original drawing for this piece (reproduced below) was presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1896 by Seddon's daughter.