Partners' desk
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1820
Materials
Mahogany, deal, brass, leather
Measurements
76 x 152 x 103.9 cm
Place of origin
England
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206567
Summary
A mahogany partners' desk, English, late 18th/early 19th century. The rectangular top with inset tooled leather skiver and moulded edge above a central long frieze drawer flanked by two short frieze drawers. All cockbeaded. Raised on a pair of pedestals, fitted to one side with a cupboard door with panel bead mouldings with concave corners, and fitted to the other side with three cockbeaded and graduated short drawers. Each pedestal raised on a plinth base.
Provenance
Listed in the 1965 Inventory of Wimpole in the Entrance Hall (p. 1). Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.