Folding screen
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Pine, brass
Measurements
179 x 154 x 3.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127702
Summary
A pine and brass two-fold screen, English, late 19th/early 20th century. Each fold with simple rectangular-section uprights joined at the top by a brass pole and with three further rectangular-section horizontal slats.
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.