Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Painted pine
Measurements
89 x 75.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127670
Summary
A painted pine towel horse, English, circa 1900, of three bars, the end supports on ogee-arched feet. All-over painted to simulate wood grain.
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.