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It was exhibited again in the Medieval Court at the London International Exhibition of 1862 where it was purchased by the South Kensington Museum for £40. Photographs of the Medieval Court in 1862 show the sideboard with a high backboard decorated with a pattern of studs. This may be the '\"reredos\", some five feet high, covered with velvet', described by Mrs Loftie, <u>The Dining Room</u>, page 49, in 1878.\r\n\r\nThe diaper pattern used above and below the central panel is similar to one on a Japanese cabinet in Burges's collection and the same pattern was used on another cabinet shown in the 1862 International Exhibition (J.B. Waring, <u>Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862</u>, pl. 288.)\r\n\r\nThe male portrait to the right of the central panel is J.M. Whistler and that to the left of the central panel may be D.G. Rossetti. The two female portraits have not yet been identified.\r\n\r\nIn 1900 the sideboard was on display in the Upper Gallery of the Bethnal Green Museum, with other pieces of furniture to encourage and educate local furniture-making trades.\r\n\r\nIn 1964 the sideboard was lent to the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, on long loan. This was originally requested in exchange for one of the painted chairs designed by Burges which was borrowed for display in the new Nineteenth Century Primary Gallery in the V&A. In 1980 the termination of the long loan of the sideboard was requested since it was needed for display in the Primary Gallery and the Burges chair was returned to the William Morris Gallery .","historicalContext":"Among other Burges cabinets known to have been painted by Poynter are the Cadmus bookcase (Ashmolean Museum Oxford), the Yatman cabinet (also in the V&A), and the Fry cabinet (private collection). \r\n\r\nTwo other known cabinets have Bacchus-related designs: the mirrored buffet with  the 'Martyr de St Bacchus' shown at the 1859 Architectural Exhibition and the 1862 London International Exhibition, painted by Nathaniel Westlake and now at the Art Institute of Chicago, and a 'St Bacchus' sideboard similar to the V&A example, but painted by Thomas Morten and now at the Detroit Institue of Arts.","briefDescription":"Sideboard, 'The Wines and Beers sideboard', by William Burges","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jonathan Meyer, 'The Nineteenth Century. 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London, The Intelligent Layman Publisher Ltd, 2005, pp. 104-185, ill. p. 162"},{"reference":{"text":"Sato, Tomoko & Watanabe, Toshio (ed.) <i>Japan and Britain: an aesthetic dialogue, 1850-1930</i>, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1991","id":"AUTH353431"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Elizabeth Aslin, <i>Nineteenth Century English Furniture</i> (London, Faber, 1962), plate 60"}],"production":"Reason For Production: Exhibition","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"SIDEBOARD AND WINE CABINET\r\nENGLISH; 1859\r\nWood with painted and gilt decoration\r\nDesigned by William Burges. Painted by N.H.J. 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