Form (bench)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1630
Materials
Turned and joined oak
Measurements
59.5 x 267 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127787.1
Summary
A form, one of a set of three joined oak forms, or long stools, English, circa 1630. The pegged top with moulded edge above friezes carved with a run of moulding, raised on six splayed legs turned as rising balusters with a compressed 'reel' below. With block feet joined by rectangular-section side stretchers. The top of this form reduced in length at one end.
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.