Folding cot
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Painted metal, canvas, string, boxwood
Measurements
82 x 125 x 53 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127696
Summary
A folding cot, English, late 19th century. Of metal and painted metal. With arched ends between scroll-topped uprights. The sides of string netting and with a canvas base in a metal frame. All raised on boxwood castors.
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.