Housekeeper's cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Oak and walnut
Measurements
208 x 167 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127887
Summary
An oak and walnut housekeeper's cupboard, English, mid-18th century, the moulded breakfront cornice above a fretwork frieze and three doors of fielded ogee-arched panels and plain fielded panels, enclosing hinges and hooks, between fluted quarter-columns, the base with four rectangular fielded panels above three short and two longer drawers, on a shaped bracket plinth.
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.
References
Edwards, Ralph, 1894-1977 shorter dictionary of English furniture : 1964., p. 281, Figure 11, where it is referred to as 'an exceptionally distinguished example'