Sofa table
Category
Furniture
Date
1811 - 1820
Materials
Rosewood, brass inlay and leather
Measurements
72 x 92 x 61 cm
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485409
Summary
A rosewood sofa-table, of Regency period, the top opens to reveal an interior fitted as a writing desk, with brass stringing, above a carved stretcher.
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.