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 1127423.2
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
'Drawing Room'