#780

Grodnertal Wooden Doll with Fine Miniature Slant-front Desk
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$1,800
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Description

8" (20 cm.) All-wooden doll with painted black hair and carved and painted facial features, jointing at shoulders and hips wears its original mustard-gold silk dress with flannel petticoats being used as sewing pin holder; along with a superb birdseye maple slant-front desk with three drawers, desk interior with six small drawers and cubby hole with bone handle, having keyhole with working key, nicely shaped bracket feet. Excellent condition. Mid-19th century.