Doll's bed
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Cotton, Lace, Paint
Measurements
73 x 55 mm; 93 mm (length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339043.3.4
Summary
One of four white painted metal dolls' beds. Wire mesh mattress base, badly damaged - one side loose. Hooped head and foot. Decorative ends featuring faces of cherub and wings. Pink cotton mattress with red cotton detail, home made; white sheet, home made, letter 'M' embroidered in corner; long pillow with crude lace edging; second, small pillow with decorative edging and letter 'M' embroidered in corner.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade