Sideboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Mahogany, satinwood, boxwood, ebony, oak, deal, brass
Measurements
77.2 x 73.6 x 39.2 cm
Place of origin
Netherlands
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206704.2
Summary
A demi-lune side cabinet, Dutch, circa 1800, very similar to 206704.1. Made of mahogany, with satinwood inlay and banding, and ebony elements. The top with a low pierced gallery to the front curve. Above a pair of curving cupboard doors with inlay simulating a tambour and with brass handles. The doors either side of an inlaid projecting corbel. All above an apron pierced with roundels and rectangles. Raised on three inlaid tapering and square-section legs.
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.