Day-bed
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Silk, walnut, brass castors
Measurements
64 x 178 x 64 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428635
Summary
A button-back day bed or sofa, English, circa 1860. Upholstered in striped gold watered silk, the shaped and rounded three-quarter length back with a tassel on the front arm terminal, the seat with rounded end and standing on turned tapering walnut legs with castors.
Provenance
Visible in an 1881 photograph of The Drawing Room when it was Disraeli's library.