Sutherland table
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
70 x 177 cm
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485404
Summary
A Georgian mahogany octagonal sutherland table on spider-leg supports.
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.