‘Stack House’ a good and important early English painted wooden dolls house and contents, circa 1820, previously on display at the Vivien Greene Dolls House museum, the façade and sides with painted trompe l’oeil, creating a convincing red brick Regency house with stone string course, panelled front door with fanlight, Doric columns to portico and nine sash windows with painted blinds, the kitchen window is particularly interesting and shows a wire blind to keep out flies and a maidservant peering over, awaiting visitors perhaps, the black pitch roof has two chimneys, the front opens in two wings to four rooms, hallway and landing, mounted on a wooden stand. Hallway: this is entered by a painted wooden archway with painted marbled columns, leading to staircase with red silk carpet and ochre painted walls. Kitchen: with plain wood walls and floor, Evans and Cartwright tinplate cooking range with wooden fire surround and brass hand wound mechanical spit Jack, fixed hanging wooden shelves and a selection of kitchen furniture including wooden table, chairs, tinplate Evans & Cartwright chair, food, pots, pans, plates, serving dishes, kettle, utensils and more. Ground floor dining room: with cream floral wallpapers, Evans and Cartwright tinplate fireplace and painted wooden ‘marbled’ surround, good amount of furniture to include wooden tables, pink upholstered chairs with settee, bureau, bird in cage, chessboard (incomplete), and various ornaments, together with two bisque shoulder head seated gentlemen. First floor landing: with blue floral wallpapers, chest of drawers, pram and painted wooden Grodnertal doll in original clothes. First floor bedroom: with cream foliage wallpapers, Evans and Cartwright tinplate fireplace and painted wooden ‘marbled’ surround, Chinois four poster bed, wooden table, chest, Evans & Cartwright washstand, ornaments, Grodnertal and peg wooden dolls (Grodnertal with paint loss to face, peg lacks one lower arm). First floor drawing room: with cream papered walls, Evans and Cartwright tinplate fireplace and painted wooden ‘marbled’ surround, nice mauve upholstered settee and chairs, Evans & Cartwright table, display cabinet, clock, bird cage and more, together with two Parian shoulder head dolls and a Grodnertal wooden doll (face and lower legs overpainted). House (without stand) 36” (91cm) tall, with stand 59 ¾” (151.5cm), 40” (112cm) wide, 15 ½” (39cm) deep. Stand 24” (61cm) tall, (condition: some repaired cracks to façade, marble effect fireplace surrounds and kitchen surround and Jack not original, stand 19th century but probably not original to house). Provenance: The house originates from Settle in Yorkshire, where it is believed to have remained in Stack House with one family for more than one hundred years, it was subsequently sold to, an antique dealer in Sussex who sold it to Miss Mary Titcomb a friend of Vivien Greene’s, the House features in ‘English Dolls’ Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century’ Vivien Greene’s first book on Dolls Houses and the house was later exhibited in her famous Rotunda Museum, Oxford. The house was sold in 1998 by Bonhams Auctioneers, London as part of the Vivien Greene museum collection. Jennifer Le Masurier later acquired the house and has since done further extensive research into the history and family which will all be offered with the house. Please note: For viewing, shipping and collection of this lot please contact Leigh Gotch at C&T Auctioneers direct.
