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Details
An interesting wood carpenter made dolls' house
painted to simulate stone wih slate roof, two chimney stacks, exterior drainpipes and mahogany front door with brass hande and knocker, of three bays and three stories, opening at the front to reveal six rooms with hall, staircase and landing, interior doors, chimney breasts, fireplaces, cornices, skirting boards and central skyights, two central blue glass windows, the buff painted kitchen with fireplace, shelves and spit holders, amusingly furnished including a fine English large scale half tester bed, plain transfer printed and painted 'rosewood' Waltershausen pieces, a bisque bathing beauty model in an artist's studio, painted tinplate wash vessels, kitchen dresser, kitchen equipment, bisque and china-headed dolls and a set of dining room furniture upholstered in brown leather, circa 1840 --54in. (137cm.) high, 47½in. (121cm.) wide and 20in. (51cm.) deep (some repairs and restoration, over paint removed from facade) on stand
painted to simulate stone wih slate roof, two chimney stacks, exterior drainpipes and mahogany front door with brass hande and knocker, of three bays and three stories, opening at the front to reveal six rooms with hall, staircase and landing, interior doors, chimney breasts, fireplaces, cornices, skirting boards and central skyights, two central blue glass windows, the buff painted kitchen with fireplace, shelves and spit holders, amusingly furnished including a fine English large scale half tester bed, plain transfer printed and painted 'rosewood' Waltershausen pieces, a bisque bathing beauty model in an artist's studio, painted tinplate wash vessels, kitchen dresser, kitchen equipment, bisque and china-headed dolls and a set of dining room furniture upholstered in brown leather, circa 1840 --54in. (137cm.) high, 47½in. (121cm.) wide and 20in. (51cm.) deep (some repairs and restoration, over paint removed from facade) on stand
Provenance
This house formally formed part of the Viviene Greene Dolls' House Collection and is sold with a framed note about the house written by Mrs. Graham Greene.
Special notice
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