Bench
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Turned and joined pine
Measurements
53 x 167 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128121.13
Summary
A bench or form, one of a set of fourteen pine benches, English, some made in the 19th century, some made after 1960, all with single plank top and raised on four legs turned as rising balusters and united by an 'H'-shaped stretcher.
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.