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Description: | The core collections are furniture, textiles, decorative arts and paintings, covering English taste and style over the last 400 years. These collection illustrate the history and development of English urban middle-class interior.
a. Furniture: one of the UK;s most important collections of typical, fine quality, Englih domestic furniture, from the late 16th century to the 1980s, including John Evelyn's ebony cabinet-on-stand and a notable collection of furniture by CFA Voysey.
b. Textiles: a wide range of domestic textiles, from samplers to 19th century linens, carpet by Marian Pepler and a large collection of 1950s curtain fabrics
c. Ceramics and Glass: small collections from 17th century Delft to 1930s hand painted china
d. Metalwork: domestic equipment, including an open hearth kitchen, but also items by CR Ashbee and Christopher Dresser.
e. Architectural items: several 17th and 18th century panelled rooms, a complete 17th staircase, carevd wood ansd marable fire surrounds, cast iron firegrates and firebacks and examples of 18th anf 19th century joinery, lead water butts and brickwork
f. Domestic appliances: a range of raiod and stereophonic equipment from 1890 to 1960, plus lighting, cleaning and sewing machines.
g. Woodworking tools:an extensive collection of 19th century and earlier cabinet-making anbd wood-working tools, including complete tool chests and small machines such as lathes and jigsaws.
h. Treen: a notable collection of 18th and 19th century tea caddies anbd work boxes, and other wooden items | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Kingsland Road
Hackney London Great Britain (UK),
E2 8EA | FAX: | 020 7729 5647 | Telephone: | 020 7739 9893 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5365 | Go to resource |
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