Drop-leaf dining table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oak, softwood, metal
Measurements
70.5 x 151.5 x 69 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127912.2
Summary
An oak drop-leaf dining table, English, circa 1770. With a fixed rectangular top and pair of rectangular hinged drop leaves. With plain friezes and raised on slightly tapering square-section legs, with two hinged gates inset.
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.