Bidet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
45 x 59 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127497
Summary
A mahogany bidet, English, circa 1870, having a lift-off rectangular cover enclosing a well, the ceramic liner lacking, raised on four baluster- and ring-turned supports.
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.