THE HOUSE: WORLDLY GOODS.
discovery • renovation • worldly goods • textiles • library
A small selection of some of the furniture, food, décor, and other goods to be found within Number 39. The “official” scale of the house is 1/16, but part of the fun of this project has been to allow the mix of scales often seen in antique houses that have been tended to by succeeding generations of owners. In the same way, I haven't paid any attention to the actual manufacture dates of the pieces. If it looks right to me, in it goes. To my eye, this gives a warmer, sweeter impression than models in which everything is perfectly perfect. Much of the art, you will see, is in fact odd bits of jewelry and other tiny fragments I’ve picked up over the years…without knowing what exactly I was going to do with them.
Syrian bronze coin with head of the Emperor Augustus, 1st century CE.
Copper bathtub and thermometer with temperatures in Celsius and Rankine scales.
Cream-painted bed and wardobe in the Art Nouveau style, made by Gottschalk. Germany, early 20th century.
Vienna bronze orange tree and rose. Austria, early 20th century.
Carved bone piano and pedestal table. Probably German, 19th century.
Framed cigarette card from Wills's Cigarettes showing bull mastiff. England, early 20th century.
Jugendstil-style ormolu mantel clock by Erhard und Sohne. Germany, early 20th century.
Three copper kitchen moulds. Germany, early 20th century.
Dustpan and brush. Germany, early 20th century.
Embroidery stand with spools. Russian, 2020.
Two miniature portraits painted on card, possibly Queen Elizabeth I and Helen of Troy. Originally part of a piece of jewelry, now framed in modern brass stampings. Probably French, late 19th century.
Three appetizing plaster platters by the British firm Kaybot, mid-20th century.
Two pieces of luggage. Front: cardboard candy box suitcase, German, early 20th century. Back: tin lithographed automobile trunk by Marx, American, c1920-30.
Madonna and Child pendant reliquary in silver filigree frame. Italian, 18th century.
Engraved "scrap" scene of a milliner's shop. Framed in wood and Dresden paper. British, 1820s.
Painted miniature portrait brooch in pinchbeck frame. Probably American, early 19th century.
Wooden table and chairs by Strombecker. American, 1930s.
Painted metal rocking chair by Simon et Rivollet. French, late 19th century.
Sewing machine with working hand crank. German, early 20th century.
Lithographed wood sideboard with mirror. French or German, mid-19th century.
Silver kitchen implements, Dutch, 19th century.
Filigree silver table and chair, probably Dutch, 19th century. Cold-painted bronze pot of primroses, Austrian, late 19th century.
Bar of "wool soap" in celluloid, produced by Swift & Co. American, late 19th/early 20th century.
Spinning wheel in 1/16 scale made to order for Foxe and Boxe by Dan Brewer. American, 2019.
A small group of the many "gem" tintypes belonging to Foxe and Boxe, all 19th century.
Porcelain plate with grapes and cheese made from gum tragacanth–the oldest food in the house. German or French, early- to mid-19th century.
Cameo pendant showing the head of the Apollo Belvedere. Probably 19th century.
Pendant commemorating the Silver Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 19th century.
Various scissors, and an iron.