Standing livery cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1600 - 1610
Materials
Carved and inlaid oak
Measurements
112 x 123 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127711
Summary
An oak and inlaid standing livery cupboard, or court cupboard, English, circa 1600 - 1610, but with modifications, the frieze inlaid with contra-partie flowers and applied with three carved lion masks, raised on a pair of gadrooned and leaf-carved bulbous columns flanking an open shelf, above a cupboard enclosed by a pair of inlaid paneled doors, flanking a conforming fixed panel. The front applied with four figural terms above a foliate lozenge-carved rail and further leaf-carved columns, flanking an open shelf. -- Much of the 16th and 17th century oak at Hardwick Hall, the indigenous pieces aside, was probably purchased by the 6th Duke in the 19th century to enhance the Elizabethan feel of the property, much as his contemporary, Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, is known to have done (Westgarth, Raikes). The 6th Duke is recorded, for instance, as having bought 'oak Arm chairs' in 1846.
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.
References
Westgarth 2009, M. Westgarth, 'A Biographical Register of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers', Regional Furniture XXIII (2009), 1 - 205 Raikes, 2003: S.Raikes. ““A cultivated eye for the antique”: Charles Winn and the enrichment of Nostell Priory in the nineteenth century.” Apollo 157.494 (2003): pp.3-8.