Chest of drawers
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 (and later)
Materials
Walnut, fruitwood, deal, oak, gilt metal
Measurements
81 x 132.5 x 58.2 cm
Place of origin
Southern Germany
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206740.1
Summary
A walnut and fruitwood chest of drawers, or commode, Southern German or Northern Italian, late 18th/early 19th century, with some later alterations. One of a pair. Having a top with rounded front corners and a moulded edge. Above two lip-moulded drawers, each crossbanded and with parquetry panels and replaced handles. The sides with parquetry of interlaced strapwork lozenges. The front rail with central pendant section and angular spandrels. Raised on tapering square-section legs. -- The stamp to the upper edge of the top drawers of these commodes possibly refers to Thomas Hall of Great Portland Street, London and George Street, Edinburgh, a 'designer, decoration, furnisher and electrician' active from the 1870s.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in Mrs Bambridge's Bedroom (p. 8). 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Upper edge of top drawer: THOMAS HALL, LONDON & EDINBURGH