Folding screen
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900 (the screen; the leather earlier)
Materials
Varnished oak, embossed (probably earlier) leather
Measurements
180 x 230 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127443
Summary
An oak-framed and leather-lined three-fold screen, the screen circa 1900, the embossed leather earlier, probably 18th/19th century.
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.