Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870
Materials
Painted timber
Measurements
86 x 67.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127675
Summary
A painted towel horse, English, circa 1870. The top of two bars, with a further two below, all ring-turned and raised on block and turned end supports on block and turned feet. Painted in white.
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.