Fire guard
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
400 x 1095 x 360 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485707
Summary
A fireguard.
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.