Kitchen Cabinets · English Country & Cottage
Thorne Miniature Room: English Cottage Kitchen of the Queen Anne Period, 1702–14
A 1:12-scale Thorne Room of an English cottage kitchen of the early 1700s, with a wide hearth, a dresser of pewter and pottery, and simple oak furniture.
Design characteristics
This miniature shows the cottage kitchen that inspired generations of country style: a wide fireplace with cooking equipment, an oak dresser displaying pewter and pottery, plain plastered walls and a beamed ceiling. Its simplicity is its charm. A dresser and a hearth-like range alcove remain the two key pieces for a kitchen in this spirit.
Classification
- Category
- Kitchen Cabinets
- Material
- Oak
- Motifs
- Plate rack, Dresser
- Model made
- c. 1937
- Maker or designer
- Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882–1966
- Recorded medium
- Miniature room, mixed media
- Dimensions
- External: 46.4 × 114.3 × 52.8 cm (18 1/4 × 45 × 20 3/4 in.); Internal (main room only): 25.4 × 66.1 × 60.4 cm (10 × 26 × 23 3/4 in.)
- Evidence
- Museum miniature room (scale model)
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
Architectural context
Painted joinery, dressers and plate racks, plain paneling and beamed ceilings. England and Wales · vernacular, 1600s onward.
