Fire bucket
Merryweather and Sons
Category
Leatherwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Metal, Paint
Measurements
280 mm (Height); 245 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 883605.1
Summary
One of three Merryweather leather fire buckets, all painted red and black with black line around bucket under rim; leather straps as handles. On metal hooks with plaque that reads MERRYWEATHER AND SONS/ENGINEERS' LONDON
Provenance
a gift from Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave the house to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there until his death in 1966.
Makers and roles
Merryweather and Sons