Collection of English Furniture & Persian Carpets
Various
- Art Funded
- 1955
- Bequeathed by
- Ernest Edward Cook through The Art Fund
Collection comprises: Chippendale Commode; set of eight Hepplewhite chairs; George I suite -12 chairs and 1 settee; Two printed silk programmes from Theatre Dalby, 1849; 2 Persian carpets.
Persian carpets currently unidentified within collection according to 2004 audit.
Provenance
Part of the E E Cook collection, grandson of Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook Travel Agency. Died in 1955 and bequeathed the entire contents of his house at Bath to the National Art Collections Fund.