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*Penkill Castle. A Victorian dressing table from Christina Rossetti's Room, Penkill Castle, elaborately carved oak dressing table, composed of an occasional table with additions and embellishments, stained to match, including swing mirror within a shaped veneered frame, supported by large carved volutes, above a three drawer base, attached to a serpentine base with single full-length drawer, front with carved acanthus leaves, cabriole supports leading to hoof feet united by stretchers, some worm holes and repairs, one drawer containing a few ephemeral items relating to Penkill Castle, including a pencilled recipe for dark oak stain, an empty box for a powder prescribed to W.B. Scott, and an empty visiting card envelope printed 'Miss Boyd, Penkill', 183cm (72ins) high x 102.5cm (40.25ins) wide x 60cm (23.5ins) deep Provenance: Penkill Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Purchased by the current owner in the late 1970s. Believed to be the dressing table from Christina Rossetti's Room, and said to have been assembled by William Bell Scott. Penkill was the home of Alice Boyd (1825-1897), 14th Laird of Penkill, and her lifelong companion Scottish artist William Bell Scott (1811-1890), and was frequented in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William Holman Hunt and Christina Rossetti. During this time the castle was a hive of artistic activity, with poems being penned, furnishings being collected, decorative schemes being devised and murals being painted. Many of the visits which took place are recorded by Scott's inclusion of portraits of his friends in the most remarkable work of art at the castle, a huge mural covering the wall of the great circular staircase illustrating the medieval Scottish poem 'The King's Quair'. Christina first stayed at Penkill in 1866, and became a frequent visitor, always staying in the uppermost turret bedroom in the original tower, known as 'The Windy Room' or 'Christina Rossetti's Room', the walls of which she painted with a mural of trees with falling autumn leaves. The room looks out onto the garden from a four-cornered window, where, it is said, Christina used to stand for hours, with her elbows on the sill and her hands supporting her face, lost in meditation. She wrote of Penkill: "Even Naples in imagination cannot efface the quiet fertile comeliness of Penkill in reality." (1)
*Table cabinet. A late 19th-century Continental ormolu table casket, in the Renaissance style, with a hinged compartment surmounted by a dog finial (detached), another compartment beneath, with c-scroll and leaf moulded decoration throughout with a single drawer to the base, on eight splayed feet, 33cm high x 33cm wide x 27cm deep (1)
AN OAK REFECTORY STYLE DINING TABLE, approximate size length 213cm x width 84cm x height 76cm and eight chairs with brown leather studded overstuffed seats and backs including two carvers, Made by the Vendors family in the mid 1980's by Michael Griffin, Cabinet Maker (9)
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