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Sideboard

1810-1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Returned from loan to Bodelwyddan Castle, National Portrait Gallery, Rhyl, May 2017.


Object details

Categories
Furniture
Woodwork
Interiors
Object type
Sideboard
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Sideboard
  • Back Section
  • Mount
  • Fragment
Materials and techniques
Mahogany with carved wooden, metal enrichments.
Mahogany
Metal
Carving
Brief description
Sideboard, mahogany with carved compositions, England, 1810-1820 (RF: 88/543)
Physical description
Side board of mahogany with carved wooden, metal and composition enrichments. The base, which is indented by a segment of a circle, the edge gadrooned, supports a pair of wooden bronzed winged lionesses, and pilasters at the rear. The frieze is decorated at the front and sides by metal palmettes flanked by tendrils, the centre of the front has a pair of composition lionesses drinking at a fluted basin. Below this is a bronzed carved wooden apron composed with rosettes, trumpet flowers, acanthus and tendrils centring on a formalized shell.
The back-rail of the sideboard is composed with three wooden bronzed eagle-headed lyres, with metal strings, lictor's roods and pineapple and vine headed batons, with a rosette at their crossing. All these motifs are of bronzed wood.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 83.8cm (From grey file)
  • Width: 269cm (From grey file)
  • Height: 97.8cm (Form grey file)
  • Height: 133cm (Height at back, from grey file)
Gallery label
SIDEBOARD ENGLISH; about 1815 Mahogany, bronzed lionesses, and composition ornaments.(pre October 2000)
Object history
Purchased by the V&A from O.F. Wilson Ltd in 1969 for £850 (acquisition Registered File: 69/1944)
Subjects depicted
Fasces
Rosettes
Pineapples
Acanthus
Lyres
Summary
Returned from loan to Bodelwyddan Castle, National Portrait Gallery, Rhyl, May 2017.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.26-1969

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Record createdJanuary 24, 2001
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O52935/sideboard-unknown/
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