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Silver is precious, and these 'toys' were not childrens' playthings. They could be collected and displayed in the dolls' houses that  became increasingly popular in the eighteenth century, or assembled in cabinets as objects to amuse and treasure. This model of a linen press on a matching table reproduces in silver an item of wooden domestic furniture used to press the household linen, such as tablecloths, napkins and bedclothes. Linen presses were items of furniture often displayed in public rooms, as their presence implied a household wealthy enough to own, and care for, fine linens. A full-size wooden example is also in the V&amp;A collections, museum no. 532-1892.","physicalDescription":"Silver; the press is supported on a four-legged table, equipped with four rails. A pierced apron is fixed between each pair of legs. The press operates by means of a screw held between two square sectioned reeded columns.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"cutting","id":"AAT53069"},{"text":"soldering","id":"AAT53949"},{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, cut, cast and soldered.","categories":[{"text":"Dolls & Toys","id":"THES48967"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2006AU1127"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CA002","id":"THES388277"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"linen press","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Amsterdam","id":"x28722"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1728-1769","earliest":"1728-01-01","latest":"1769-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequest of Miss Phoebe Marks","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"8.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"04/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-04","latest":"2024-12-04"},"part":"","note":"Taken from the register, which records the height as 3½ inches."},{"dimension":"Width","value":"4.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"04/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-04","latest":"2024-12-04"},"part":"","note":"Taken from register, which records the width as 1¾ inches."}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This silver ‘toy’ is one of 154 silver 'toys' that Miss Phoebe Marks left to the Museum on her death in November 1940. She had inherited some of the pieces from her mother, and the rest of her collection had been put together by her brother, Murray Marks (1840-1918). Murray was one of the best-known dealers in paintings and decorative art objects of the 1860s onwards, who sold (and donated) items of furniture, porcelain and sculpture to the South Kensington Museum (as the V&A then was).\r\nThe V&A was not the only beneficiary of Phoebe’s generosity. In her will she left money to various charitable causes, including the Jewish Board of Guardians (now Jewish Care) to help poor Jewish immigrants, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Battersea Dogs’ Home and ‘to each of my maids Cornelia Rose Ripsher and Caroline Beatrice Ripsher the sum of two thousand pounds’. Cornelia was her cook, and Caroline her house parlour maid.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"miniature linen press, silver, Dutch (possibly Amsterdam), 1728-1769, unmarked","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Poliakoff, Miranda. <u>Silver Toys & Miniatures</u>. London:  Victoria and Albert Museum, ?1986."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Duysters, Kristin. <u>'Al 's werelds goed, is poppe-goed'.  Miniatuur Zilver in Nederland</u>. Arnhem: Historisch  Museum Het Burgerweeshuis, 1999."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.65-1941"],"accessionNumberNum":"65","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1941,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2024-12-21","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}