Pole screen stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Ebonised timber, probably beech, decorated with gilt lines
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127435
Summary
An ebonized and parcel-gilt pole screen stand, English, circa 1850, the screen lacking, topped by an acorn finial, the shaft set into a ring-turned stem on a triform base with concave edges, on three gilt-painted peg 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.