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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Apr 20 @ 07:00UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
Circa 1860. Elegant dollhouse has an impressive fatade of two flanking towers and a recessed center with a grand entrance. Intricately carved windows and mullions are further enhanced by the cut out fretwork that embodies the front entrance and hangs below the railing on the balcony. Twenty-eight large windows are found on the front and both sides of the house. A carved weather vane is perched on the recessed center. The house is painted gray with white trim and the front entrance has two carved columns with steps ascending a railed porch. The house is open from the back to expose six large furnished rooms. There are four long rooms consisting of a parlor, dining room, child's nursery, and bedroom. The two center rooms (one on top of each other). The one on the first level is a kitchen. It has a build in cupboard, marble cooking area with fountain. There are numerous cooking implements and a black bisque Nanny with a baby. Above the kitchen is an outdoors garden and potting shed with all the garden tools etc. Bedroom is furnished mostly in black French furniture consisting of a day bed, armoire, table & chairs, a soft metal filigree sewing stand, two ivory pieces (an exceptional shaving mirror, cabinet), a beaded chandelier, plus other accessories. Dining room has a beaded chandelier, a built in mirrored fireplace and a fine Biedemeier china cabinet plus other pieces. Child's nursery is mostly of later German furnishings painted blue with flower decoration. There are several small all bisque dolls in the nursery. There is a beaded chandelier and other small accessories. Parlor has a built in fireplace with a fine set of lithograph furniture consisting of a sofa, chairs, tables, hutch and a most unusual lithographed parlor stove. A fine set of Bristol dishes, wine decanter, goblets, beaded chandelier, vases are also included. Interior of this house has wallpapers of repeating patterns of stone, columns, cornices and marble. Draperies of silk and lace hang at all the windows. Height, 33.5" to roof top, 43" to top of weathervane. width - 39", depth 26.5", base 47" x 29.5", upper rooms, 11 x 14 1/2", outer lower rooms, 11" x 15", kitchen, 14 1/2" x 16". (Very Good to Excellent) $7,500 - $10,000
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