Doll's house table
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
120 mm (length); 58 mm (width); 72 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667207
Summary
A doll's house size dark wooden drop-leaf table. The table top is in three parts, a central panel and a drop leaf either side which is hinged and hangs downwards. When one leaf is raised it reveals a wooden peg, which when pulled outwards horizontally, secures the leaf in an upright position. The peg may be pushed back into the carcass of the table to lower the leaf. On the other side, the peg has fallen inside the carcass and therefore cannot be pulled outwards to support the other leaf. In the central section of the table is an elaborate gold coloured transfer decoration. This is also found, albeit in a less elaborate form, on the two leaves, on each long side of the carcass and on the elaborately shaped legs. Between the legs is a turned spindle.