Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880 - circa 1930
Materials
Painted wood
Measurements
93.3 x 76.6 x 28.3 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206888
Summary
A towel horse, English, late 19th/early 20th century. Painted grey. Of three rails between block and ring-turned end supports topped by ball finials and terminating in outswept shaped feet.
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.