A Burr Walnut Early Victorian Period Antique Dining Table

A burr walnut Early Victorian Period 8 seater antique dining/centre table. The octagonal top veneered in the finest burr walnut with 8 "book matched" butterfly veneers and a moulded walnut edge with a pierced fretwork frieze with applied roundels and turned finials. The top is supported on spiral twist columns, upon a shaped platform base with turned bun feet and brass and porcelain castors. The design of this table is reminiscent of the English architect Richard Bridgens. this table could be used as either a dining table or a centre table. English circa 1860

Dimensions: 53" diameter x 28" high

Condition: This table is in stunning condition, cleaned and waxed

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Designer and architect. 1785-1846.

Working in Birmingham mainly between 1819 and 1825.

Some sources state that Bridgens was possibly born in Sheffield, though it is most likely that he is the Richard Bridgens born and baptised in Birmingham on 30 August 1784 to Joseph Bridgens and Elizabeth Hicks (married 13 September 1762), and his burial record in Trinidad states that he was born in Warwickshire.*

Richard Hicks Bridgens began his career in Liverpool where he was apprenticed and worked for the cabinet maker and sculptor George Bullock. He moved to London in 1814 to continue working with Bullock. After Bullock's death in 1818 Bridgens set up his own business in Birmingham from 1819 to 1825, but although he was talented, it seems that self promotion was not his forte and custom was slow to materialise. Little is known of the work that he carried out in Birmingham, but he did produce a book, Furniture with candelabra and interior decoration, detailing his ideas for interior design, if not specific commissions. His most noteable known work was for James Watt junior at Aston Hall designing furniture and making architectural alterations in the Jacobean style. When his wife inherited a sugar plantation the couple left Birmingham for Trinidad.

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