Sofa
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Wood and metal structure, killim, wool velvet upholstery
Measurements
94 x 158 x 83 cm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485421
Summary
A sofa,circa 1900, stuffed over and upholstered in fringed blue Utrecht velvet covered with Kilims, en suite with a pair of armchairs (NT 485420.1-2).
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.