Open bookcase
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Walnut, leather, silk.
Measurements
152 x 324 x 34 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882660
Summary
A figured walnut breakfront open bookcase, English, circa 1860. With adjustable shelving and leather dust protectors, the taller centre section with open shelves and hinge-down fretwork panel, flanked by open shelves and doors with silk-backed arched fretwork panels between corbels, on plinth base.
Provenance
This came to Lanhydrock from the Treasurer's House, Martock. See memo to A. Mitchell dated 20th July 1970.