Folding screen
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Mahogany, with glazed panels, lacquered brass
Measurements
195 x 151.5 x 3 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127445
Summary
A mahogany and glazed three-fold screen, English, circa 1900. Each fold with a glazed panel above a mahogany panel, and each with a lacquered brass socket for a candle branch.
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.