Pot cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1875 - 1890
Materials
Walnut, brass
Measurements
77 x 39 x 36.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Greenway, Devon
NT 119443.4
Summary
A walnut pot cupboard, English, last quarter 19th century, part of a set of four pieces of bedroom furniture comprising a combination wardrobe [NT 119443.1], a clothes press [NT 119443.2] and a dressing table [NT 119443.3]. All with locks by Hobbs & Co. of London. One of the wardrobe doors with a door bolt marked 'W. TONKS & SONS / REGISTERED / APRIL 16 1873'. The edge-moulded top above a fielded-paneled cuboard door with applied mouldings and enclosing a shelf. The uprights with decorative mouldings and raised on four turned and ring-turned feet.
Provenance
This piece of this set of bedroom furniture with provenance notes stating that it was introduced to Greenway by Agatha Christie Mallowan (1890-1976) and was listed in an inventory taken just before the house was requisitioned by the American Navy in 1942. Given to the National Trust by Mrs Rosalind Hicks (d. 2004), Anthony Hicks (d. 2005) and Mathew Prichard in 2006, and accepted in 2007.