Wastepaper basket
Category
Wooden objects
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
42.5 x 35.5 x 35.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey (Accredited Museum)
NT 1245933
Summary
A mahogany wastepaper basket, English, early 20th century in the mid-18th century style. Of octagonal form, all sides arched at the top and profusely pierced with tracery lights and shapes in the Gothic manner. With bracket feet.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded; bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913) in 1942.