Pole screen stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1815
Materials
Brass pole, parcel-gilt ebonized beech base
Measurements
145 x 36 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127423.1
Summary
A pole screen stand, one of a pair of ebonized beech, parcel-gilt and brass pole screen stands, English, circa 1815. The brass stem topped by a finial and with adjustable wooden banner-bar, the bases with a gadrooned knop above a reeded vase embellished with a spiral-gadrooned collar, on a tri-form platform with concave sides, and three lion's paw feet.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.
Marks and inscriptions
Paper label, Drawing Room