Bidet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Mahogany, with white ceramic liner
Measurements
47 x 54 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127496
Summary
A mahogany and ceramic bidet, English, circa 1860, having a lift-off cover enclosing a well lined with a white ceramic bow, raised on four ball- and baluster-turned legs.
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.