Doll's house food
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
1970 - 1979
Materials
Plastic
Measurements
Largest Item - 25 mm (width); 10 mm (height), Smallest Item - 14 mm (width); 12 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663562
Summary
Various items of dolls house size kitchen appliances, and various plates of food (contents of 1970s doll's house, inventory number - 663517). There are four plastic plates of doll's house size artificial food - including steak, fish, sausages, egg, potatoes and peas. One plastic red jelly on a white plastic plate. One white cake decorated with red and silver, on a silver plate. One small pink blancmange with a 'cherry' on top, on a cream coloured plate. Three uncooked meat joints, two steak pieces and one rolled. Two roast chickens, in brown plastic on cream bases, with paint chipping off at the top to reveal cream plastic. Three cream plastic objects - one a kettle, one a saucepan and the other is three bottles joined together at the base. Three silver-coloured plastic pans, with red handles - the paint is chipping off to reveal cream plastic - one contains a fried egg. Total number of items is 18.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Joyce Howard-Monks in 2010. Part of the contents of the ‘Hobbies’ doll’s house – inventory number 663517 - made by the donor’s father, Ronald Graham (b.1902), for his two grandchildren Lynn Pick (b.1964) and Dawn Lawton (b.1966).