Backstool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1675
Materials
Walnut, the back and seat of cane
Measurements
97.5 x 53 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127539.3
Summary
A backstool, one of a set of three turned walnut and cane-work backstools, English, circa 1675, with later restorations. The rear uprights spiral-turned and with octagonal facetted blocks, topped by simple ball finials, the seat caned and raised on block and spiral-turned legs terminating in pear feet, united by bobbin-turned front, peripheral and mid-stretchers.
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.
References
Bowett 2002 Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, 2002 , a similar example at Boughton House illustrated p. 86, Figure 3:28