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DINGLEY HALL a painted wooden dolls' house of five bays and three storeys with roof balustrade, pediment with clock and finial, double steps with four bronze Gryphon on plinths, each bay with hinged door, the central section with oriel window above an Italianate balcony, above a 16th century style Flemish strap-work scroll, carved with intials L I C 1877, --113¾in. (289cm.) wide, 77¼in. (196cm.) high and 20in. (51cm.) deep (for condition report and full inventory please contact the department) THE INTERIOR The little red sitting room (AT) Painted pink with a dark blue felt carpet, furnishings include a Rock and Graner painted wood grain day bed, upholstered in original buttoned red silk with gilt and chenille braid; an unusual large scale Gothic eight piece set of Waltershausen drawing room furniture, upholstered in red ribbed paper 'leather', printed in gold; a Waltershausen buffet printed with landscapes; an early simulated rosewood wall clock; a painted tinplate fireplace with 'smoking fire', gilded soft metal decoration and firearms; four wood grain Waltershausen items; a quantity of milk glass jugs, cups and saucers, painted with pink rosebuds and green leaves; a lobster; gilt-metal ornaments; a bisque headed doll with moulded blonde hair in original 18th century style frock coat; and ten gilt framed pictures The Drawing Room (AM) the walls hung with maroon cloth the floor with dark blue felt carpet; furniture includes a rare set of white and gold Rock and Graner upholstered in red silk; a pair of unusual Waltershausen four-tier corner shelves and five other Waltershausen pieces including a side table with heraldic devices; a miniature model of a Royal Naval frigate; a pinperle doll dressed as a Zoave with moulded composition turban; gilt-metal items; china and glass including bisque ornaments and a Chamberlains Worcester cat on grass The Kitchen (AB) The cream paper with printed blue borders and fitted bell-board, containing a painted tinplate 'Ice-Box' and cupboard; five bisque headed servants including a page in 18th century-style costume and chef with jointed wood body; a large wood grain painted dresser; copper and tinplate cooking pans; a boot brush; wooden bottles; a bone coffee grinder; cat and mouse; a boars head and a silver cup The Nursery (BT) The deep red flock paper printed with a gold diaper pattern, the carpet of green cloth, with six all-bisque children jointed at shoulder and hip, moulded blonde curls and painted features, in original clothes, two all-bisque dolls' house dolls jointed at neck and shoulder with moulded brown and grey boots and elaborate original clothes; a soft metal sewing basket, canopied bed and music stand; a Waltershausen globe; a Rock and Graner yellow 'bentwood' rocking chair, half-tester bed and side chair; a bone sailing boat, a painted bone Pantin and cup and ball; a cheval mirror; tinplate fireplace and bath The Study (BM) The paper with yellow stripe and carpet of green cross stitch, with elaborate tinplate fireplace; a wood day bed with original blue silk hangings surmounted by an eagle; four chairs and footstool upholstered in blue silk; a wood grain book case containing six miniature Latin books; other miniature books; a gilt metal pier glass with H.W. Morrell's sticker; a quantity of gilt metal framed pictures; a carved bone firescreen of a hunter; a cross-stitched hearth rug embroidered 'L.C.'; flagons, bottles and glasses; and a pinperle man with original top hat, red tail cot, blue waistcoat and breeches with gilt paper bands The Oriental Room (BB) Hung with Japanese prints, the carpet of red, blue and green cross-stitch with a very rare soft-metal hanging lantern containing four lithophanes of children; seven pieces of Japanese furniture with painted decoration, one drawer raises the curtain of a shrine when opened; eight German bisque figures of Chinese acrobats; a South German carved bone cupboard containing vessels, a chess set, ink stand and hand scre