Dressing stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880 - circa 1920
Materials
Mahogany, wool, canvas, beech
Measurements
43.18 x 45.72 x 38.1 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206834
Summary
A mahogany dressing stool, English, late 19th/early 20th century, in George III style. The drop-in seat upholstered in needlepoint worked in wools of garlands of flowers and foliage against a white ground with a light blue border. The seat rails moulded and raised on four reeded legs with chamfered inner corners, and foliate spandrels.
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.