Early German Richly Furnished Dollhouse Rooms of the Biedermeier Era

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40" (102 cm.) l. x 18"h. 18"d. The two-room Biedermeier era dollhouse has original wall and floor coverings, three full-length windows at the back wall with draperies and gilt ormolu valences, and a paneled door between the rooms. The salon features rare larger-scale Boulle furnishings including a piano with printed musical design on the inside hinged key lid, as well as very rare bead-covered parlor stove, glass dome with floral arrangement, tin jardiniere with wooden potted plants, beaded carpet, collection of tiny-sized bone furnishing, elaborate chandelier, beaded cradle, and various wall hangings. The smaller library room is furnished with more larger Boulle furnishings and the exterior wall is lined with book shelves which contain 34 miniature leather bound books with printed pages and images, 5 miniature leather bound albums with early tintypes, painted metal chair by Evans and Cartwright, leather valise lettered "New York", a trio of Viennese bronze pug dogs, rare porcelain miniatures, many framed images, beaded carpet, ceramic fireplace, chandelier, and handpainted metal figures of emperor with two period ladies. The rooms are inhabited by nine Grodnertal wooden dolls, two early paper mache dolls, and three bisque dolls with sculpted hair, in additional to several tiny doll's dolls. The rooms and their furnishings and dolls are truly remarkable. Germany, circa 1850.