Towel horse
manner of Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
100.5 x 55 cm
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127663.2
Summary
A folding towel horse, one of a pair of mahogany folding towel horses, English, circa 1770, each of two folds of three bars, with shaped spandrel feet. Very similar linen airers were supplied by Thomas Chippendale (1718 - 1779) for Paxton House in 1774, some of two folds and some of three (GIlbert, 1978).
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.
Makers and roles
manner of Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779) , cabinet maker
References
Macquoid, Percy, The dictionary of English furniture :, 1983, illustrated p. 345, Figure 4