Dressing stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Mahogany, oak, beech, linen, hessian
Measurements
45 x 62.5 x 48.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127494
Summary
A mahogany dressing stool, English, circa 1765. The rectangular seat covered in buttoned linen. With oak rails and beech corner braces. The legs square-section and chamfered, and with an 'H'-shaped stretcher joined with a pointed joint.
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.