Pole screen stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870
Materials
Ebonised wood decorated with gilt, brass
Measurements
146 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127430
Summary
An ebonized, parcel gilt and brass pole screen stand, English, circa 1870, having a horizontal banner-bar adjusting on a vertical brass pole, set into a vase-turned and ebonized stand and on three downswept supports terminating in scroll 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.