Hall stand
Miles & Edwards
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1835
Materials
Oak, iron, tin, brass
Measurements
198.8 x 156 x 63 cm
Place of origin
134 Oxford Street, London
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206952
Summary
An oak double-sided hall stand, English, circa 1835, by Miles & Edwards of 134 Oxford Street, London. With a curving rail fitted with five iron hooks to either side, between uprights each with three iron hooks. Set onto a central box with hinged lid and fitted with twenty rings (ten either side) to hold umbrellas. The end supports scroll-edged and joined by a dished platform base with sheet tin drip-trays and liners. With sunken brass castors. -- Miles & Edwards were a successful firm which operated from 134 Oxford Street between 1822 and 1844. They were early proponents of stamping furniture with a pattern number. This hall stand is stamped '1578'.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Top of front frieze: MILES & EDWARDS, 134 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, 1578
Makers and roles
Miles & Edwards, cabinetmaker