Dressing stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870 (and later)
Materials
Beech, pine, paint, silk
Measurements
45.72 x 53.34 x 50.8 cm
Place of origin
Northern Europe
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206786
Summary
A white and polychrome-painted dressing stool, 19th century and later painted. With shaped rails and moulded cabriole legs, painted in white and with pink, blue and green flowers and foliage. The seat upholstered in faded pink and blue silk.
Provenance
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.