Octagonal Library Table
Richard Hicks Bridgens (English, 1785-1846; Made by Edward Holmes Baldock; English, 1777-1845; London, England)
c. 1840; designed 1832
- Medium
- Ebony, boxwood, kingwood, mahogany, satinwood, pine, cedar, chestnut, tulipwood, and various stained and shaded woods, with ivory, pearl-shell, copper and brass inlay; the carcass of the top and of the drawer linings is mahogany; the…
- Classification
- Furniture
- Dimensions
- 74.9 × 137.2 × 148.6 cm (30 × 54 × 58 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- London
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of The Antiquarian Society from the Capital Campaign Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
