Wash stand table by James Stuart

Wash stand table by James Stuart, 1760

© V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Details

Medium:

Mahogany inlaid with boxwood & padouk

Acquired in:

1992

Bequeathed by:

Brigadier Clark Fund through The Art Fund

Clark CMG, DSO, to the Victoria and Albert Museum through the Art Fund. After his death, a trust was set up in 1976 so that his estate could be used by the V&A to add to its collection of English seventeenth. and eighteenth-century furniture and cIocks. Again, Brigadier Clark wished this bequest to be through the Art Fund, though the fund is administered by the V&A.

Provenance

Designed for Lady Spencer's bedroom at Spencer House, London.