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Description: | The collection has 70,000 items from 16th Ã-20th century with 35,000 items of costume and 15,000 items of textile. British furnishing and decorative textiles, especially embroideries, from c1610. Women's dresses and accessories from 1720. Men's, babies, and children's clothes. Fashion plates from c1780, dress patterns from the 1860s. Representative selection of fashionable, and some occupational dress, both typical, and some rare and unusual examples.
There are 8,000 items in the ceramic collection from the 17th century to present and is one of the finest public collections of ceramics outside London including important English delftware, studio pottery and 19th century tea and coffee cups.
Toys There are 4,000 items dating from 18th century to present including a variety of dolls, board games, jigsaw puzzles, models, doll's houses, children's books and nursery items such as cots and high chairs. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 10-12 Church Sreet
Alton Hampshire United Kingdom,
GU34 2BW | FAX: | 01420 84227 | Telephone: | 01402 82802 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4842 | Go to resource |
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