Stump bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1800
Materials
Pine and beech
Measurements
98 x 193 x 113 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127488
Summary
A pine and beech stump bedstead, English, 1750 - 1800, the headboard with posts topped by ball finials, with plain side rails, the footposts simply chamfered, raised on castors.
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.