- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5548024
- Also known as:
- Georgian House, Georgian House, Bristol, 7 Great George Street, The Georgian House, attached front area railings and rear garden walls, Georgian House Museum
- Part of:
- Bristol Museums
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 940
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5548024/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
The Georgian House has a good collection of 18th century furniture including a mahogany bureau-bookcase, c.1750, and two built-in bookcases which are the only original pieces of furniture remaining in the house. The bookcases were built to a matching design in 1791. Other pieces include: an office desk with brass fittings, which was in the counting house of the Nevis plantation; a fine walnut-veneered long-case clock by John Jordan of Bristol, c.1740; a settee and armchairs gilded in the Adam style dating from the 1780s; a square piano of 1783 by Frederick Beck of London; a double-secretaire bookcase in Cuban mahogany made c.1800, perhaps in Bristol; and a collector’s cabinet of c.1745 in walnut-veneered oak with ormolu mounts. The blue-and-white Chinese porcelain dessert service bearing the Pinney coat of arms is a loan from the family.
Subjects
Decorative and Applied Arts
Social History Collection
The social history artefacts in the house are concentrated in the kitchen and include many domestic utensils of the 18th and 19th centuries such as: a wooden cheese-coaster; jelly and gingerbread moulds; spice boxes of wood and tin; a sugar cone; 18th century pewter (much of it of Bristol manufacture); a wooden rocker washer c.1850; a linen press; and a box mangle of the late 18th century.
Subjects
Social History
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC