High dresser
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Painted pine, pitch pine, brass
Measurements
230 x 222.5 x 55 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207052
Summary
A painted pine and pine high dresser, English, mid-19th century. Fitted with a rack with boarded back, shaped sides and three shelves. The enclosed base with a pitch pine top above two pairs of flush-paneled cupboard doors. Cream-painted and with brass knob handles.
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.