Clothes press
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750 (and later)
Materials
Oak, deal
Measurements
212 cm (H); 152 cm (W); 66 cm (D)
Place of origin
England
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Speke Hall, Merseyside
NT 1196556
Summary
An oak press cupboard, English, mid 18th century with mid 19th century additions, alterations and carving. With scrolling foliage to the cornice above two cupboard doors enclosing four inner sliding shelves, the lower section with two short and three long graduated drawers. The front heavily later carved with fruit, foliage, grotesque masks and cherub heads, raised on bracket feet.
Provenance
Speke Hall and its contents were bequeathed, as a secondary devise, to the National Trust by Adelaide Watt (d.1921) in 1943. Speke was initially bequeathed to the Norris family (who built the original house during the 16th century). It was then leased to Liverpool City Council and later to the Museums Department of Merseyside County Council. The National Trust took over direct management of the house and its contents in 1986.