Desk box
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, the boards fixed with iron nails
Measurements
60 x 126 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127580
Summary
An oak desk box, probably made using some 17th century timbers, but of later construction, having a hinged slope and boarded plain sides, the two short ends each fitted with a small shelf raised on concave brackets.
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.