Mural shelves
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Mahogany, the drawers lined with oak
Measurements
76 x 47 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127870.1
Summary
A set of hanging or mural shelves, one of a pair of mahogany hanging or mural shelves, English, circa 1800, of two shelves above a pair of short drawers lined with oak, the sides scroll-shaped to the top and bottom.
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.