Lot 291
A large Arts & Crafts pitch pine wardrobe
Auction: 25 March 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
of rectangular form, with canted sides, the raised crocket uprights with sunken maple leaf decoration above chamfered and slatted doors and similar side doors enclosing fitted and hanging interiors, on chamfered stem feet
Dimensions
290cm wide, 230cm high, 71cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: bought at the end of the Second World War from Classiebawn Castle, Mullaghmore, County Sligo, the summer residence of Earl Mountbatten. Classiebawn was begun by British statesman Lord Palmerston and completed in 1874. Mountbatten, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle to Prince Philip, was born June 25, 1900. He married Edwina Ashley in 1922 and so came into ownership of Classiebawn and its sprawling estate from her family, which was directly descended from Palmerston.