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DOLLS HOUSE FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES a collection of modern dolls house furniture including a bureau bookcase, tallboy, chest of drawers, longcase clocks, tables and chairs, beds etc. Also with various accessories including rugs, candlesticks and candleabra, firescreen, small dolls etc (not all shown on the image).
An embroidered panel,'Maids of Honour', designed by May Morris in 1880-92, the verse reads 'Welcome maids of honour - You do bring in the spring and wait upon her', inset into a mahogany firescreen, 62cm wide90cm highProvenance: From a descendant of the Trevelyan Family of Wallington Hall, Northumberland.May Morris, William’s youngest daughter, was an important figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The verse is the opening of 'To Violets' by Robert Herrick, a 17th century poet. May helped transform embroidery from a domestic pastime - undervalued because it was mostly done by women - into a serious art form. Her work was exhibited widely and pieces like this showed what could be achieved by imaginative and inventive free-hand stitching, as opposed to the more plodding woolwork dominating much amateur production.May had become the head of Morris and Co.’s embroidery department by the time she was twenty-three, but she was concerned by the lack of professional organisations open to women and tried to redress this by founding the Women’s Guild of Arts in 1907.Wallington Hall is now owned by the National Trust. The interiors were remodelled with Pre-Raphaeliate art, sculpture and decoration. The artist William Bell Scott was commissioned to paint the walls with a series of vivid Pre-Raphaelite scenes depicting great moments in the history of Northumberland. Bell carried out most of the painting and one panel was painted by John Ruskin. Another Pre-Raphaelite friend of the Trevelyan family was sculptor Thomas Woolner, who created sculptures in the entrance hall. Lady Mary Terevelyan (1881-1966) was keen on the arts and there are a series of tapestries woven by her at Wallington Hall – it may be that she used the May Morris design from a pattern which was known to have been published in the ‘Day Book’.Condition report: See additional images.Fading to the colours of the embroidery. Blue ground with stains throughout. The right leg has had damage and the spindle support is no longer present.
A QUANTITY OF OCCASIONAL FURNITURE, to include an early 20th Century oak oval topped occasional table, together with an oak nest of three tables, a carved oak firescreen, another firescreen, a Victorian mahogany toilet mirror, an elm milking stool, a carved coffee table, an oak torchere stand and an oak wall mirror (s.d.) (9)
An inlaid Edwardian mahogany drop-leaf Sutherland type tea table with satin-wood cross-banding and further inlaid detail raised on slender turned supports, together with one other, and an Edwardian firescreen enclosing a tapestry panel with armorial shield and a contempary Scandinavian extending dining table (4) (AF)
A slender 19th century mahogany wall mounted display cabinet enclosed by a pair of segmented glazed panelled doors beneath a projecting cornice, 81 cm wide x 18.5 cm deep x 76 cm high, together with three stools of varying size and design and a walnut firescreen with glazed floral tapestry panel within a crossbanded frame (5)

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