Travelling chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Ebonised wood and japanned decoration
Measurements
59 x 88 x 51 cm
Place of origin
England
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485387
Summary
A travelling chest, circa 1700, japanned in black and gold decorated with oriental landscape of rocky hills and small houses to the front and sides, opening with a domed hinged lid and brass lock, raised on a shaped plinth.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
References
Rowell 2012 : Christopher Rowell, Petworth, The People and the Place, Scala, 2012