Court cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Oak, brass handles, pine drawers
Measurements
187 x 142 x 60 cm
Place of origin
Wales
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1331920
Summary
An oak press cupboard or cwpwrdd deuddarn, Welsh, probably Cardiganshire, circa 1740. The upper section divided into three cupboards, outer two with a central shelf, with doors, each with four panels, below a projecting frieze with drop finials, the lower section with three frieze drawers, the central one small, and a pair of large panelled cupboard doors flanking twin panels. Brass handles. On stile feet.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.