Form (bench)
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899 (the tops, the bases possibly earlier)
Materials
Scrubbed pine and turned and joined oak
Measurements
53 x 475 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128125.2
Summary
A form, one of a pair of oak and pine forms or benches, 19th century, the oak bases possibly earlier, and with scrubbed pine top raised on six baluster-turned legs joined by 'H'-shaped stretchers.
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.