Collectors cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Wood
Measurements
1220 x 2290 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 287012
Summary
Grained side cupboard with open shelves in the centre between doors concealling collectors' drawers. Inside drawers also grained with black outline and inset grained handles. Drawers graduated in size. Frieze between two ebonised mouldings, ebonised mouldings on door panels. Solid base. Late 19th century, probably made to order. n.b. Contents; 2 rawers have fragments, one with a writtne lable; 'Collection of urn fragments out of Barrow at Alstonfield, North Stafford. Ancient British.' Signed V.H.C. (?) and dated 1894. The other; 'Pottery from the Pottucks farm found by Trent (?) by Mr Bull the tenant 1891'.
Marks and inscriptions
Pottery from the Pottucks farm found by Trent (?) by Mr Bull the tenant 1891 (inscribed note in drawer)