Sideboard and Wine Cabinet

1859·Pine, mahogany, paint, gilding, iron, brass, and marble·126.7 × 151.5 × 57.8 cm (49 7/8 × 59 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.)

Purchased with funds provided by the James McClintock Snitzler Fund through the Antiquarian Society, Mrs. DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbinder, Mr. and Mrs. Stanford D. Marks, Mrs. Eric Oldberg, Harry A. Root, and the Woman's Board in honor of Mrs. Gloria Gottlieb; Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation, Richard T. Crane, Ada Turnbull Hertle, Kay and Frederick Krehbiel, Florence L. Notter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Varley, and European Decorative Arts Purchase endowment funds; through prior purchase with funds provided by Robert Allerton and the Antiquarian Society; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf and Helen Bibas; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., the R. T. Crane, Jr., Memorial Fund; through prior gifts of H. M. Gillen; the George F. Harding Collection, Mrs. John Hooker, and the Kenilworth Garden Club

Catalogue

Year: 1859
Medium: Pine, mahogany, paint, gilding, iron, brass, and marble
Dimensions: 126.7 × 151.5 × 57.8 cm (49 7/8 × 59 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: William Burges

Artist

William Burges

William Burges was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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