#247

German Toy
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$1,100
sold
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Description
10" (25 cm.) A wooden-topped platform with bellows sides covered with printed fabric serves as the base for a little bisque doll on swing. The swing is supported by two painted columns that are decorated with silk flowers,and perched upon the seat is a bisque head doll with painted facial features and hair,pouty expression,block torso,wooden lower limbs. When the platform is squeezed music plays and the swing moves back and forth in a charming manner. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: attributed to Zinner and Sohne,circa 1910. Value Points: charming motion and music function well on the charming toy.