Clothes press
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Mahogany, oak, softwood, brass, ebonised wood
Measurements
200 x 146.5 x 58 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128088
Summary
A mahogany clothes press, English, early 19th century. Having a moulded cornice above a pair of doors framed as single panels, enclosing five mahogany-fronted oak slides. All above two short and one long drawer, cockbeaded and oak-lined drawers, fitted with ebonised wooden handles. Raised on outswept bracket feet. Mahogany clothes press with two short double drawers above a long single drawer. Large single panels in doors with narrow beaded edge. Brass edge to right door down centre. Moulded cornice, cock-beaded drawers, small bracket feet. Ebonised drawer knobs and door handle. Four fitted shelves in top mahogany front, the insides of oak. Similarly, oak inside drawers. Late 18th century. Reddish figured wood.
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.