Pole screen stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Timber, probably beech, painted to simulate coromandel
Measurements
133 x 34 cm
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127436
Summary
A simulated coromandel pole screen stand, North European, mid-19th century, the adjustable central stem topped by an unusual arrow terminal and set into a spiral-turned shaft, on three wavy-edge downswept supports.
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.