#209

German Miniature Furnished Dining Room
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$950
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10"h. x 12"w. x 9.5"d. A stage-like wooden setting featuring two large curtained windows at the rear presents a turn-of-the-century dining room of a bourgeois family, having papered walls and paper lithographed faux-wood floor. The dining room furniture is of matched oak wood with silk upholstery on the chairs and includes table, 3 side chairs, 1 armchair, straight-back sofa with silk upholstery and attached high shelf, and a table and cabinet with mirrors. There are 2 painted metal flower stands, an iron stove and coal bucket, wooden corner tagere, and various accessories, viz. gilded soft metal serving cart with wheels, large gilded metal oil lamp with milk glass shade, glass fruit bowl, silver-lidded glass stein, silver book box, pewter plates, framed lithographs, and an embroidered area rug. A black haired china woman and little girl people the house. Circa 1890.