Pole screen stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Painted timber, probably beech, parcel-gilt, brass banner bar, lead weight to base
Measurements
146 x 55 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127853.1
Summary
A pole screen stand, one of a pair of simulated rosewood and parcel-gilt pole screen stands, English, circa 1825, the wooden shaft topped by an acorn finial and supporting a brass banner bar, the base of three downswept supports on a platform base with concave sides, on turned feet. Simulated rosewood and with yellow highlighting to gilt, a lead weight to the underside.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
'Drawing Room' & 'Stand for banner in State Bedroom'