Description
the stepped and castellated superstructure inlaid with specimen woods and supported by trefoil pierced brackets, the rectangular top with line and dot inlay to the edge above three central drawers flanked by open shelves, supported by columns over twin pedestals with panelled doors enclosing cellaret drawer and slides, block feet with castors
Dimensions
244cm wide, 150cm high, 76cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Gere, Charlotte and Whiteway, Michael 'Nineteenth Century Design', London 1993, p. 113-4, pl. 125 and 126
Note: Victorian designer Charles Bevan was a prominent nineteenth-century English furniture maker and designer who created critically-acclaimed pieces of ornate furniture in the Gothic Revival style. He worked with numerous furniture designers and his pieces were written about in various catalogues and periodicals, and can now be found in both private and public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bevan's works were shown at international exhibitions such as a bookcase designed for James Lamb shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and two cabinets at the International Exhibition in London in 1872, which he designed for Gillows & Co.