細節
A mid-Victorian walnut whatnot, designed by J.P.Seddon, 1860, the pierced castellated gallery with projecting finials above three open shelves with dog-tooth and dot-inlay frieze and pierced hexafoils supported by turned columns above pierced apron, the gallery distressed -- 31in. (79cm.) wide.
See Colour Illustration
Cf. Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, Thames & Hudson 1987, p.104, plate 222 for a drawing of a near identical whatnot presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1896 by Seddon's daughter.
See Colour Illustration
Cf. Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, Thames & Hudson 1987, p.104, plate 222 for a drawing of a near identical whatnot presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1896 by Seddon's daughter.