#87

A Twelve-Room Dollhouse with Antique Furnishings
Live Auction

$10,000
sold
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Description
50" x 34" house. The very elaborate house, constructed to represent 1890 era, has twelve rooms and three attic rooms, all furnished in lavishly in a disparate arrangement of antique furnishings and accessories. Included are wooden furnishings, some with marble tops, in the so- called Biedermeier era, painted ensemble with lithographed appliques, Schneegass examples and hand-made pieces; pressed tin furniture, and cast metal furniture, as well as an important number of accessories: gilt ormulu framed lithographs, metal-framed lithographs, mirrors, many chandeliers, accessories including clocks, figurines, dishes, kitchenware, tin wall telephone, bust of Queen Victorian on wooden pedestal, gilt ormulu accessories, trunks, fireplace mantels. Of special interest is an unusual mantel and a carved wooden chaise noted as being surplus inventory from the furnishings of Titania's Palace dollhouse. There are many additional items not shown in the photographs. Contents range from fair to excellent condition. The house was constructed in recent years to showcase the collection of furnishings which are all 1875-1925.