Standing livery cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Carved and joined oak
Measurements
84 x 94 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127956
Summary
An oak standing livery cupboard, or 'counter' chest, some elements early to mid-16th century, but probably altered, the top section a chest, with hinged lid with shaped projecting corners, the front formed of two 'Romayne'-type panels, one male the other femaile, each within a moulded roundel and amongst foliated scrolls or rinceaux. The lower section of two open shelves, each with stiff leaf-carved or wrapped front supports, each shelf with an edge moulding, and raised on paw-carved 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.
References
Edwards, Ralph, 1894-1977 shorter dictionary of English furniture : 1964., see p. 272, Figure 1 for a comparable counter table at Penshurst Place, Kent, and formerly of Hill Hall, Essex Westgarth 2009, M. Westgarth, 'A Biographical Register of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers', Regional Furniture XXIII (2009), 1 - 205 Raikes, 2003: S.Raikes. ““A cultivated eye for the antique”: Charles Winn and the enrichment of Nostell Priory in the nineteenth century.” Apollo 157.494 (2003): pp.3-8.