German Furnished Dollhouse Rooms with Dolls and Accessories of the Biedermeier Era

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31" (79 cm.) l. x 10"h x 15"d. The open-front dollhouse rooms, made in the late Biedermeier era, and with original wall and floor papers have three glass windows at the rear and an opening double door between the rooms. The house is richly-filled, curtained and carpeted. Notable objects in the smaller room include the house altar in the back corner, the glass bead chandelier which matches the glass bead dress on china doll, and wooden cradle. The larger room is furnished with a superb early Biedemeier parlor set including a fine center table with image design on the top; along with a firescreen with printed linen cover, rare wall images including decoupage shadowbox with "Glaube Liebe Hoffnung" (faith, love, hope) message; gilded paper tray with cordial set, wax vignette under glass dome, and various opera glasses, albums, folios and painted tin velocipede on which is posed an all-bisque doll with original costume and a tiny porcelain baby with glass bottle. There are eight dolls in the rooms, plus smaller doll's dolls, notably a rare and fine lady with sculpted grey bonnet. Excellent condition. Germany, circa 1865.