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Tudor Coin Encrusted Table Table
This is a Table. It was company: RIGHT ANGLE INTERIORS and designed by Cheryl R. Riley. It is dated 1992 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is wood, enamel, copper leaf, coins, brass, gold leaf. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Studded with Nigerian coins and burnished with gold and copper leaf, the Tudor Coin Encrusted Table recalls the aristocratic costumes of England in the 16th century and traditional East African masks. The textured surface of the patinated table, interspersed with luminous rows of coins, evokes the pattern variety of Tudor and Maasai accoutrements.
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 56.3 x 61 x 61 cm (22 3/16 x 24 x 24 in.)
It is signed
Inside the drawer: "Cheryl Riley 1/93"
Cite this object as
Tudor Coin Encrusted Table Table; Company: RIGHT ANGLE INTERIORS; Designed by Cheryl R. Riley (b. 1952); USA; wood, enamel, copper leaf, coins, brass, gold leaf; H x W x D: 56.3 x 61 x 61 cm (22 3/16 x 24 x 24 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1993-9-2-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Duro Olowu Selects and The Virtue in Vice.
