Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900 - circa 1940
Materials
Painted wood
Measurements
83 x 65.2 x 27 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206904
Summary
A towel horse, painted peach, English, early to mid-20th century. Of three ring-turned rail between block and baluster-turned end supports topped by turned ball finials and each on a pair of block and ring-turned feet on small turned bun 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.