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AN EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE

BY RICHARD BRIDGENS, CIRCA 1838

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE
BY RICHARD BRIDGENS, CIRCA 1838
With a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, the border decorated with marquetry strap work, mask heads and trompe l'oeil, with two frieze drawers, joined by twin stretchers
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 26½ in. (67 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The table is richly jewelled and mosaic-trellised in the George IV Elizabethan fashion invented in the 1820s by the sculptor-trained architect Richard Bridgens (d. 1846), while working at Aston Hall, Birmingham. Its pattern was published in Bridgens' Furniture with Candelabra, 1838 (pl.38). An almost identical table, also corresponding to the published pattern is illustrated in C. Wainwright et al, George Bullock, London, 1988, fig. 5, now in the V & A Museum.

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