Highchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Stained beech, cane seat
Measurements
97 x 37 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127594
Summary
A stained beech, elm and cane child's high chair, English, circa 1830. With bar toprail and cane seat raised on ring and baluster-turned outswept front supports, with peripheral 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.