Doll's house bed
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, cotton and lace
Measurements
125 mm (length); 172 mm (height); 147 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660475
Summary
A half tester bed, made for a doll’s house, from imitation wrought iron painted black (contents from Betty Cadbury collection doll's house with lift - inventory number 660462). The legs and uprights are twisted barley sugar style, with gold colour paint. The bed head curtain has machine stitched pleats, with a pale blue crayon ribbon, stitched to each top corner. The curtain fabric is creamy with a drawn thread effect stripe and trimmed with machine lace in cream, edged with blue. The curtain has some foxing around the edges. A mattress is roughly constructed out of cotton, machine stitched with some fraying. There is a square cotton coloured pillow with lace edging, pale cream coloured. The lace coverlet is rectangular, roughly cut at one end, edged with lace, machine stitched and topped with a faded blue bow. The total number of items is 5.