Sideboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Mahogany, deal, oak, satinwood, rosewood, maple, brass
Measurements
79.5 x 70 x 42 cm
Place of origin
Netherlands
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206704.1
Summary
A demi-lune side cabinet, Dutch, circa 1800, very similar to 206704.2. Made of mahogany, with satinwood, rosewood and maple inlay. The top with a low gallery to the front curve and chequer-banding. Above a pair of curving cupboard doors with inlay simulating a tambour and with brass handles. The doors either side of an inlaid lozenge. All above an apron pierced with strapwork roundels either side of an inlaid patera. Raised on three inlaid tapering and square-section legs terminating in small brass feet.
Provenance
Listed in the 1939 inventory taken at Wimpole under 'Subsequent Additions' (p. 38); listed in the 1965 Inventory taken at Wimpole in the Chancellor's Bedroom (p. 7). Actual 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.