Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Painted pine
Measurements
90 x 66 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127669
Summary
A painted pine towel horse, English, circa 1820, of three horizontal bars on block and turned uprights topped by ball finials, and raised on conforming end supports. Painted ochre or cream with blue ring turnings, lines and finials.
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.