Books

• Approximately 1,200 books from the Dooleys' library

Ceramics

• Many examples of Sevres porcelain
• Eighty-eight-piece duplicate set of Haviland's Rutherford B. Hayes White House dinnerware, 1881
• Dresden tall compote
• Royal Vienna portrait plates
• Several Berlin porcelain plaques
• Two matching rose medallion floor urns
• Satsuma urn, two large Chinese gold fish bowls, and other Asian and European ceramics

Furniture
Primarily 19th-century and early-20th-century furniture of European and American origin, in addition to a few Asian pieces. Highlights include:

• Rosewood cabinet by Jean-Paul Mazaroz which stands 12'9", displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855
• Silver and narwhal tusk ivory dressing table and chair by Tiffany and Company, 1905, in the Viking or Celtic revival style
• French Art Nouveau side chair with marquetry water lily decoration
• Occasional table with Italian micromosaic top
• Swan bedroom set designed by Neuman and Co. of NY, ca. 1910
• Dutch marquetry furniture
• Sheraton/Hepplewhite-style painted satinwood morning room suite
• 1820s English teapoy, said to have belonged to Benjamin Disraeli, with silver tea caddies by London maker Samuel Whitford

Glass

• "Jack-in-the-Pulpit" vase by L. C. Tiffany, 1908
• Cameo glass vase by Thomas Webb & Sons
• Tiffany Studios stained glass window, approx. 15' x 10'
• Stained glass transoms throughout upper floors
• Enamelled glass window depicting a mother in mourning
• American cut-glass banquet lamp
• Miscellaneous vases
• Venetian wine glasses

Horology

• Louis XVth-style pedestal clock by Ronquetti, Paris
• Tiffany and Company annular clock depicting the toilet of Venus
• Mantel clock and garniture mounted by bronze figures depicting the Massacre of the Innocents, Jeffrey Japy freres et cie
• Tiffany and Company minute-repeater time piece
• Tiffany and Company mantel clock
• Garniture mounted with bronze figures of Medici tomb figures

Lighting

• Original gas/electric combination fixtures throughout including 22 chandeliers and 36 wall brackets
• Bronze gas torchere in the ²-life-size form of Minerva, cast by Barbidienne, Paris
• Oil lamp by Cornelius
• Various oil and electrified lamps

Metal Objects

• Silver Tiffany and Company commemorative cup, 1904
• Gorham silver tea service in the Medallion pattern
• Art Nouveau, gilt bronze inkwell and pentray by Charles Korschann, 1896-1906
• James Dooley's silver academic medals
• Fireplace tools
• Miscellaneous containers

Music box

• Mechanical organ by Davrainville, the premier Parisian mechanical instrument maker, signed and dated 1820; the clock-work mechanism drives a two-foot long rotating cylinder; 26 wooden pipes and leather bellows; Empire style case on chest holding seven cylinders with operatic highlights.

Paintings and Prints

• Many oil paintings and prints which are turn-of-the-20th-century copies of "Old Masters"
• Several contemporary genre scenes and landscapes by Italian artists acquired in Rome, June 1910
• Watercolors of the Maymont grounds by T.H. Wilkinson, 1903
• Portraits of James and Sallie Dooley by William Garl Brown
• Three watercolors of antebellum scenes by Suzanne Gutherz, 1906

Sculpture

• Several 19th-century Neoclassical marble sculptures, including works by expatriate Virginian William Couper, also Emil Wolff, Raphaello Romanelli and others
• One of the four extant works by 17th-century Italian sculptor Francesco Grassia, a marble bacchic group, acquired by Dooley from the Galerie Sangiorgi, Rome, 1910
• Large bronze lion by Louis Amateis, 1891

Textiles

• Three Aubusson tapestries
• An 18th-century tapestry by Gobelins in the Don Quixote series
• French tapestry-covered salon chairs and couches
• Several silk oriental rugs and other orientals including a late-19th-century Kirman and a 22' x 14' Isfahan
• Four sets of original draperies
• Irish lace dresses and bodices

Maymont House Archives

• Dooley letters, documents, ephemera
• Maps and blueprints
• Early City documents and post-1925 photographs of Maymont

Inquiries regarding the collection should be addressed to the Director of Historical Collections and Programs at 804-358-7166, ext. 331 or dwheary@maymont.org

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