Mule chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1730 - 1750
Materials
Walnut veneered onto oak, brass handles, lined to the interior with paper
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127840
Summary
A walnut and banded mule chest, English, circa 1730 - 1750, the quarter-veneered hinged, rising cover enclosing an interior lined with 18th century painted and printed paper, the front of the chest quarter-veneered and above a pair of cockbeaded drawers. The paper to the main body of the chest green with painted graining decorated with three different types of block-printed floral sprig; the sides with printed paper in black, grey, green, red, pink and white.
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.