Writing cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770 (and later)
Materials
Mahogany, oak, deal, brass, velvet
Measurements
135.1 x 110.4 x 45.2 cm
Place of origin
England
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206758
Summary
A mahogany writing cabinet, or escritoire, English, circa 1770 and with later restorations/modifications. Of unusual form, the upper chest faced as three cockbeaded drawers, which are fictive, the whole front falling as one, lined to the interior with a writing surface and with three long drawers. The base of two cupboard doors applied with 'panel' beading with canted corners. With base moulding and bracket feet.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in Mrs. Bambridge's Study (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.