$7,500
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Description
76" (193 cm.) w. x 60"h. x 32"d. The wooden palace with ivory painted gesso finish features exceptional architectural details not only in the furnished rooms, but in the upper faux-rooms and towers and in the full-width front entrance with dramatic entry steps. There are four large rooms which center the staircase hall, featuring a double staircase, balconies, colonnade against the back wall and 18th century style oil paintings gracing the walls. Chandeliers hang in each room which are richly furnished with Spielwaren chairs, tables, beds, pianos, and more, and each room is peopled with dolls in 18th century style costumes. A royal coach with a double team of horses is included in the display (see separate photo), and also included (but not shown) are other free-standing architectural garden pieces, garden walls, and 20 additional pieces of Spielware furnishings, four chandeliers and dolls. Excellent condition, the palace is wired for lighting (needs re-furbishing), Germany,1950s, many of the pieces are signed with the Spielware labels, the house and furnishings are the workmanship of Maria and Rudolf Szalasi, who patented the design in 1951, and created the palace under special commission which (undocumented) oral tradition states was for the family of the Shah of Iran.