A rare boxed interior of a bedroom, containing wax-headed commercial crêche figures in original clothes, of the Virgin and child with St. Joseph, unusual beaded furniture and fittings, including "tiled" fireplace with hanging pot and dogs, blue and white decorative plates, mirror backed sconces, brocade topped table, an elaborate water cistern surmounted by flowers and an embroidered text in the form of Hebrew characters above the fireplace, the room lined with yellow silk and with yellow silk covered canopied beds edged with beadwork - 18in. wide, German, 1690-1720 with certain later additions

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A rare boxed interior of a bedroom, containing wax-headed commercial crêche figures in original clothes, of the Virgin and child with St. Joseph, unusual beaded furniture and fittings, including "tiled" fireplace with hanging pot and dogs, blue and white decorative plates, mirror backed sconces, brocade topped table, an elaborate water cistern surmounted by flowers and an embroidered text in the form of Hebrew characters above the fireplace, the room lined with yellow silk and with yellow silk covered canopied beds edged with beadwork - 18in. wide, German, 1690-1720 with certain later additions
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Beadwork miniature furniture is uncommon, see 1639 Stromer House in German National Museum in Nuremberg for a similar blue, white and yellow beadwork bowl in bedroom opposite kitchen

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