Nineteenth-century doll's house with bourgeois interior
Description
This 19th century doll's house has a shingle roof and three-sided door. It is of the South German or Nuremberg model and was initially perhaps a playhouse. The scale ratios with high floors and a plinth make it tailor-made for children aged 8 to 12. Many small repairs indicate that it was actually used.
The layout of the rooms reflects a bourgeois lifestyle. The kitchen in particular is impressive: it shows the typical 19th-century ideal of a large, well-filled room where different maids and servants could be employed.
The doll's house was donated to the Volkskundemuseum by the influential German trading family Kreglinger, which settled in Antwerp in the 19th- century.
