Beschreibung:

A Victorian oak and pollard oak sideboard, in the manner of Richard Bridgens, in Revivalist style, circa 1850, the rectangular top above three frieze drawers and two deep central drawers, one opening to a divided interior, the other opening to a divided and lead lined interior, flanked by a mirror backed recess on each side, on a plinth base, 97cm high, 198cm wide, 67cm deep Provenance: Purchased from J. & A. Antiques, Ludlow, 10th October 1994. A copy of the original purchase receipt is available with this lot. Richard Hicks Bridgens (1785-1846) trained and worked with Messrs George Bullock (d. 1818) and William Bullock, proprietors of Piccadilly's 'Egyptian Hall', from 1812, collaborating on such projects as Sir Henry Godfrey Vassal Webster's historic 'Hastings' Hall at Battle Abbey, Sussex, whose furniture featured in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1817. Furniture with Candelabra and Interior Decoration designed by R. Bridgens, London, 1838, illustrated Bridgens' earlier designs for furniture in the Elizabethan, Gothic and Grecian styles, included sixteen plates of furniture Bridgens had designed for Aston Hall in the 1820's for James Watt These examples of heavy oak furniture were specifically designed to compliment the Jacobean style of the house (V. Glenn, 'George Bullock, Richard Bridgens and James Watt's Regency Furniture Schemes', Furniture History, 1979, pp. 54-67). The publication of Bridgens' designs later influenced the Leamington cabinet-makers and upholsterers firm of Messrs Collier and Pluncknett, whose 1870s trade label announced their 'appointment to her Majesty Queen Victoria'.