Form (bench)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1630
Materials
Turned and joined oak
Measurements
60 x 281 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127787.3
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.
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.