Bureau
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1920
Materials
Oak, metal
Measurements
91 x 90 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207074
Summary
An oak bureau, English, early 20th century. The sunken-paneled hinged fall enclosing a fitted interior, above two short and two graduated long drawers. Raised on a shaped bracket plinth.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but almost certainly 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.