Superb Grand-Sized Dollhouse Rooms

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48"w. x 19"h. x 18"d. The two-room dollhouse features a large salon and a bedroom. Gilded columns frame the front with a unique applique of box-potted plant at the base of each. There are three pairs of double-hinged windows that open inward,and a very wide interior paneled door surmounted by a garland design. The walls have original hand-painted paper and the floors are original lithographed paper in parquet or geometric designs. There are doorbells. Salon and Furnishings: The hand-painted blue wallpaper features panels with urns and flowers. Two shallow steps lead to a set-back garden room with railing,lit by a colored- lead floor-to-ceiling window and a hanging blue and white beaded glass chandelier. There is a beaded carpet,faience parlor stove,faience pedestal with flowers,pair of gilt-framed lithographs stamped Bernenes Bazar,Fredericksbarggade 21,KJ Benhavn,K.,and other wall pieces,gilt-decorated wooden Art Nouveau furnishings,bent-wire French garden room furnishings,lithographed tin baby carriage,and a superb four-arm chandelier with elaborate beading and crystals that matches the bedroom chandelier. A superb wedding couple of tragant is posed in the center of the salon table Dolls: there are three bisque dollhouse people including a moustachioed groom in formal wear and top hat,bride,and other lady,and four small bisque children. Circa 1900,the rooms are known as "Madrid at the Turn of the Century" and feature rare chandeliers,furnishings and tragant figure,enhanced by hand- painted wall-paper. Excellent condition with some paint wear to salon ceiling border.