Settee
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Beech, upholstered in linen and twill
Measurements
229 cm (Width) x 91 cm (Depth)
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127931
Summary
A beech-framed upholstered settee, English, late 19th/early 20th century, in 18th century style. With straight back and arms and raised on eight tapered square-section stained beech legs. Upholstered in blue-flecked twill.
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.