Buffet
Category
Furniture
Date
1600 - 1640
Materials
Oak
Measurements
1845 x 2667 x 565 mm
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East Riddlesden Hall, West Yorkshire
NT 201183
Summary
Oak Jacobean three tier buffet or court cupboard. Upper part with sloping canopy, flute carved frieze with slim baluster supports, four panels, three cupboard doors with carved diamonds and six pilaster stiles and planed turned balusters suporting overhanging frieze, and base with rose ace and diamond carved frieze and uprights, fitted with plain panels and two slightly carved panel doors (top tier probably of later date).
Provenance
Part of a gift of Captain J.H.Brigg, nephew and co-executor of the estate of John Jeremy Brigg of Kildwick Hall nr Keighley. John Jeremy Brigg (1862-1945) and his twin brother, William Anderton Brigg (1862-1935), had purchased East Riddlesden Hall and presented it to the National Trust in 1934, having previously also salvaged various internal fittings removed from the hall earlier in the 20th century. In January 1946 various items of historic interest from their KIldwick house were donated to East Riddlesden Hall by Capt Brigg. The rest of Kildwick Hall and its contents were auctioned shortly afterwards This item was photographed in a January 1911 Country Life article on Kildwick Hall. The article records that the Brigg family had acquired it from a house that, “served as the model for Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ and may, indeed, be the very piece she describes as the ‘pewter-bearing dresser’ “ [believed to be Ponden Hall nr Stanbury, West Yorkshire]. John Brigg, along with other members of his family, had been founder members of the Bronte Society.