Backstool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1660
Materials
Oak-framed, leather upholstery fixed with dome-headed brass nails
Measurements
102 x 54 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128012.3
Summary
One backstool from a harlequin set of three Charles II oak and leather-covered backstools, circa 1660, having a rectangular back and a padded seat with central depression and stamped with a saltire, raised on block- and ball-turned front legs, with a replacement plain front mid-stretcher and plain peripheral stretchers, upholstered throughout, including the rear uprights, in leather fixed with dome-headed brass nails. Central low stretcher lacking.
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.