Very Rare Early German Wooden Kitchen with Extensive Furnishings

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18" (46 cm.) h. x 24"l. x 20"d. The one room wooden kitchen with thick walls features a centered hearth with double-shelved chimney hood,built-in all-around shelves with plate lips and wooden rods for support of pewter tankards. A built-in large chicken coop is one side wall,and wooden cabinet on the other. the kitchen is supplied with a bounty of pewter plates and tankards that line the shelving,and there is a basket with further stacking pewter serving dishes,various pewter,brass,copper,and stoneware serving and cooking pieces in abundance,wonderful blue painted wooden bellows,and other rare pieces. The chicken coop is constructed with a food tray at the front edge,and the is a paint-decorated wooden cradle. Original finishes and paints in fair/good condition,un-restored,furnishings excellent. Germany,possibly as early as late 18th century. Ex-collection Landsberg Dollhouse Museum. $3500/4500