Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - circa 1715
Materials
Beech, paint, leather, brass, fabric, webbing, horsehair
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871332
Summary
A pair of beech double stools, or window seats, English, early 18th century. NT 871332.2 recently discovered, and covered in what is probably original leather. NT 871332.1 covered in later fabric.
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.