#461

The German Brown-Stencilled Doll Rooms By Christian Hacker
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42"w. x 18"h. x 18"d. Two wooden-framed rooms are fronted by grey and ochre painted pilasters with unusual carved tassels. The larger room has an elaborately paneled wooden wainscoting and chair rail with original dark brown paint accented by gold striping. The design is repeated on the double paneled door with etched glass windows,and on the three original matching cornices with their old velvet draperies. Both rooms have original wallpapers,the paper and borders in the large room especially beautiful,the bedroom floor is wood,and the living room floor has lithographed paper to simulate parquet. Very good condition,split in floor with early reinforcement on underside,one worn section of parlor paper between windows. Germany,circa 1900,attributed to Christian Hacker,a duplicate of this house with matching papers is shown in Cieslik's Lexikon der Puppenstuben und Puppenhauser,