24 Feb 2018
Part II: 50 interesting objects
Lady Kennedy’s dressing case
There are many intriguing and eye-catching artefacts in our collections.
1. Bridal cupboard
Featured Place:
Culross
A bridal cupboard adorned with trolls, which symbolise a happy marriage
2. Walnut escritoire
Featured Place:
Culross
A beautiful walnut escritoire (with plenty of hiding places)
3. Watercolour
Featured Place:
Weaver’s Cottage
An 1899 watercolour of a weaver by Edinburgh artist Hannah MacGoun
4. Cabinet
Featured Place:
Culzean Castle
The ‘Douglas Heart Cabinet’, which pre-dates Robert Adam’s work at Culzean Castle
5. Dressing case
Featured Place:
Culzean Castle
A Victorian ‘toilet service’ containing combs, mirrors and even a whistle
6. Wooden sticks
Featured Place:
Culzean Castle
Two neatly decorated wooden sticks (but no-one knows what they were for)
7. Middle Eastern brass bowls
Featured Place:
Pitmedden Garden
Elaborate Middle Eastern brass bowls with engraved motifs
8. Boat-shaped cradle
Featured Place:
Culzean Castle
A boat-shaped wooden cradle, symbolic of the Kennedys’ shipbuilding heritage
9. Chamber pot
Featured Place:
Culross
A pewter chamber pot, made around 1794 by William Scott and Hammermen Inc
10. Violin
Featured Place:
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
A fiddle used by Burns’s dance teacher, William Gregg