Bateau lit
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oak, wooden castors
Measurements
111 x 99 cm; 225 cm (Length)
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127828
Summary
An oak bateau lit, English, 19th century, the curving headboard and footboard with scroll-over toprails, on wooden 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.