Kitchen table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Painted pine, pitch pine, metal
Measurements
82 x 173.7 x 129 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207058
Summary
A large free-standing pitch pine and painted pine kitchen work table or chest, English, mid-19th century. The pitch pine top above a white-painted base fitted with an arrangement of eight drawers with white-painted metal handles. The drawers edged with carcase beading and on tapered square-section stile supports.
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.