Display cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Ebonised wood, ormolu, brass, turtleshell, velvet, glass
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206660
Summary
A pair of ebonized, turtleshell, brass-inlaid and ormolu-mounted display cabinets, French, circa 1860.
Provenance
Reputedly purchased by Elsie Bambridge in 1960. Listed in the 1965 inventory of Wimpole in the Gallery. George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976) purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.