Sofa
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Wood, wool, synthetic and cotton
Measurements
83 x 200 x 85 cm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485430
Summary
A sofa, English, nineteenth century, with a straight back and scroll-out arms, upholstered in a patterned moquette.
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.