Bidet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Mahogany, softwood, the liner of ceramic
Measurements
47 x 54 x 36.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127504.2
Summary
A bidet, one of a pair of mahogany and ceramic bidets, English, circa 1850, having a rectangular lift-off top enclosing a white ceramic liner basin, raised on four 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.