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Description
14" (36 cm.) h. x 17"w. x 13"d. Designed with
Grecian influence to appear as though a summer
musical or theater room,the wooden salon has
exterior paper cover to simulate marble,with
ribbed columns at the side front that are repeated
on the interior,framing the arched side windows
and forming an entrance at the proscenium steps at
the rear of the room. The proscenium rises above
an arched raised floor and there are display
niches at each side. Original paper to suggest
parquet covers the floor and gold leaf papers
enhance each column support. The room is furnished
with an early wooden harp that appears
original,four chairs,two wooden columns with
carved bone statues,violin,several carved bone
objects including a sewing basket,music stand,and
two early German porcelain dolls. The stamp of the
early Parisian toy store,Le Maire,appears on the
underside; from 1823 to 1860,the store was
considered one of the finest in Paris,designated
"as the child's Eldorado" by Psyche journal. In
one early advertising illustration for the
shop,children are shown playing with a theatre
that remarkably resembles this model (see The
Encyclopedia of French Dolls by Theimer,page 358).
Excellent original condition of the rare signed
room in charming petite size.