Doll's house fireplace
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668950
Summary
Two painted metal doll's house size fireplaces. These rectangular metal fireplaces are painted in shiny orange, brown, yellow and red paint. The mantle shelf is in brown edged with a yellow and brown brick pattern. Below the mantle shelf on three sides are two row of bricks pattern, then a band of inset yellow, then a narrow band of alternate red and yellow square bricks, than a single row of the orange and yellow bricks. The fireplace is painted cream with a swirl of black smoke. The hearth on both fireplaces is broken off and is painted yellow with a raised edge of yellow, orange brick pattern. The fireplaces have a black painted fire basket broken off in one fireplace. There is a hole at the base of the fireback through which is threaded a green cable, on one fireplace this has a metal ring attached, on the other a short plastic tube with a metal light on one end. The backs of the fireplaces are painted grey with 'Germany' stamped on the hearth. Total number of items is 7.
Marks and inscriptions
Stamped on the hearth: 'Germany'