Form (bench)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1650
Materials
Turned and joined oak
Measurements
55 x 183 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127901.2
Summary
A joined oak form, one of a pair of joined oak forms, or long stools, English, mid-17th century, the top with moulded edge above run-moulded friezes, on block and parallel baluster-turned legs joined by peripheral stretchers and with vestigial turned feet.
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.