Livery cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1760
Materials
Oak and fruitwood, brass handles and hinges
Measurements
213 x 147 x 48 cm
Place of origin
North-West of England
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998054
Summary
A joined oak livery cupboard, North-West English, circa 1760. The moulded and dentilled cornice above two long and one square fielded panels, above a pair of paneled doors enclosing pegs for hanging clothes, between corners with engaged Doric quarter columns, the lower section of four fruitwood-crossbanded drawers, the uppermost pair false, with brass handles, between conforming quarter columns. Probably once on stile feet: now raised on castors.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.