Pot cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Mahogany, brass handles, ceramic pot
Measurements
78.5 x 50 x 47.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998020
Summary
A mahogany pot cupboard, English, circa 1770, the square top with gallery pierced with quatrefoils and carry handles, above a pair of cockbeaded doors and a commode drawer faced as two cockbeaded drawers, containing a ceramic pot stamped 'COPELAND', on four square-section chamfered legs, the front pair supporting the commode drawer when open. With brass handles.
Provenance
This pot cupboard is possible the one photographed in the Inlaid Chamber (then the Tapestry Room) in 1936. Given to the National Trust by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.
Marks and inscriptions
To pot: COPELAND
References
An inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1936, Plate 99