Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
92 x 77 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128081
Summary
A mahogany towel horse, 19th century, the top of two bars, above a further two bars below, their joints with the uprights squared. On divergent supports.
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.