Tilt-top pedestal table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
71.5 cm (Height); 84.0 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127643
Summary
A mahogany tilt-top pedestal table, English, circa 1770, the circular tilt-top swiveling on a 'bird-cage' mechanism and raised on a baluster-turned pedestal and three downswept supports terminating in pointed pad feet.
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.