Clothes press
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Mahogany, oak, softwood, brass
Measurements
200 x 127 x 60 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128089
Summary
A mahogany clothes press, English, late 18th century. Having a moulded cornice above a crossbanded frieze and a pair of doors framed with large panels and enclosing five mahogany-fronted oak-lined slides and a single fixed shelf. Raised on a base of two short and two graduated long drawers, all cockbeaded, lined with oak and with dust beads, and fitted with oval brass backplates embossed to the centre with a lion couchant. Raised on outswept bracket feet and with a shaped apron. The back panelled with pine.
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.