#559

German Wooden Doll Room "Christmas at the Hunting Lodge"
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$5,750
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25" (64 cm.) w. x 12"h. x 15"d. The simple window-less wooden framed room with pressed-cardboard trim at the front panels has painted walls and floors in rich stenciled and diamond-point designs. The room is cozily furnished as though a hunting lodge in the mountains,yet decorated for Christmas festivities. Furnishings include a heavily-carved dark wood buffet with faux-marble top,matching dessert buffet,another cabinet,trestle table,three chairs with pressed-design leather seats and backs,and a richly-upholstered sofa in red and green velvet with ormolu lion?s head ornaments. An oil painting of a deer hangs on the back wall centering the mounted head of a wild boar and a bronze deer head design with rifle and hunting horn. Other accessories include an embroidered felt carpet with hunting horn design,six-arm metal candelabra,decorated Christmas tree,tragant Nativity scene and Bishop,various pewter dishes,various Christmas toys,and four small bisque dolls. Very good/excellent condition. Germany,circa 1885