Doll's house dresser
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal
Measurements
271 mm (height of dresser); 222 mm (width of dresser); 85 mm (depth of dresser); 24 - 100 mm (length or crockery etc); 12 - 45 mm (diameter of crockery and dinner service);
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659771
Summary
A doll's house size wooden dresser with two shelves and a removable wooden drawer (on display inside Betty Cadbury's doll's house number:-665529). Small panel pins have been driven into the edges of the shelves to provide hooks for hanging items of doll's house size metal crockery and metal dinner service. Some are contained inside the drawer, others in the open space beneath the drawer. They are as follows- 6 plain plates, 6 patterned plates, 1 scallop edged 'basket', 6 tankards, 1 coffee pot with no lid, 2 oval shaped lids, 1 two-handled sugar bowl (fluted), 2 graters (one large, one small), 1 coffee pot with lid and long side handle, 1 large jug, 1 circular cooking pot with lid, 1 oval cooking pot with lid and two handles, 2 candlesticks, 1 steamer with lid, 2 colanders, 1 teapot with lid, 1 kettle (coloured) with lid and stand, 1 steep sided bowl, 1 griddle or warming pan, 1 spoon, 1 iron, 1 teacup (fluted), 2 dessert bowls on pedestals, 6 trays (all different), 1 poker, 1 handmade paper book with lined pages (written inside which is '[H] Oates/ April 28/ 1827/ Aples Ap'). Total number of items is sixty
Marks and inscriptions
Inside front cover and first page of handmade book: [H] Oates/ April 28/ 1827/ Aples Ap Top side of base of candlesticks: MCFADYEN