Dressing stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Rosewood, cotton, braid
Measurements
45 x 66 x 56 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206748
Summary
A rosewood dressing stool, English, mid-19th century. The serpentine seat upholstered in floral printed white cotton edged with pink braid. The rosewood seat rails moulded, and carved with flowerheads and leaves. Raised on moulded cabriole legs carved to the knees with flowerheads and ending in scroll feet.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in Mrs Bambridge's Bedroom (p. 9). 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.