Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880 - circa 1920
Materials
Beech
Measurements
89.6 x 69 x 27 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206903
Summary
A beech towel horse, English, late 19th/early 20th century. Of three pairs of two horizontal rails between end supports of two uprights with an arched toprail and on shaped sledge 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.