Library table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Mahogany and rosewood
Measurements
72 x 145 x 83cm
Collection
Buttermere Valley, Cumbria
NT 1534543
Summary
Mahogany library table, c.1820; the rectangular top inset with black leather and cross-banded at the edge; two long drawers in the frieze, with cock-beading and turned wooden knobs, repeated as false drawer fronts on the other side (knobs missing); recessed rectangles to the corner blocks, above turned and tapering legs with brass castors.
Provenance
Bequest of Miss Annie Burns of Wood House, Buttermere, 1993.