Fire screen
Category
Furniture
Date
1775 - 1800
Materials
Mahogany, framing silk damask and velvet worked with metal thread
Measurements
81 x 56.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127939
Summary
A mahogany firescreen, English, late 18th century, a pair to NT 1127859, the screen sliding upwards, and with an arched toprail, framing to one side an green silk damask panel in green and gold, and to the other a red velvet and metal thread panel, the same late 17th century fabric as covering the chairs attributed to Thomas Roberts, and possibly by Lapiere [NT 1127755], the supports diverging and terminating in pointed pad 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.