Important Nuremberg Kitchen with Exceptional Pottery Collection

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60" (152 cm.) w. x 21"h. The wood-framed kitchen with separate pantry has original painted walls and red and white checkered painted floor. The pantry is lined with wooden shelving in so-called "beer color" to match the exterior paint and the larger room is furnished with original matching "beer color" furniture including open cupboard, attached plate shelves, wash stand, bench, and a rare rounded-front Maerklin iron stove with original four pots, boiler and kettle. There is a tin water pump, and a fulsome array of kitchenware highlighted by an extraordinary collection of glazed and decorated stoneware comprising 36 pitchers, 6 platters, 2 footed compotes, 18 bowls and 4 pudding molds in a bevy of colors with sponged, combed, splotched, feathered and marbleized decorations. Along with 8 grey and blue stoneware pieces and a large collection of copper and brass kitchenware including 4 lidded pots, 1 kettle, 2 candlesticks , 4 mugs, 3 skillets,1 sieve, 3 handled bowls, 4 pudding molds, and 7 aspic molds with fish, cornucopia or lobster designs. And a cat and a mouse, fine wooden bird cage, 3 cast iron lidded pots, cutting boards, irons and trivets, tin oil lamp, tin kitchen tools and strainers and more. The kitchen is tended by an early paper-mache doll with hand-stitched kid body, original wig, and wearing her early original costume. Excellent condition. Nuremberg, circa 1820, the kitchen is completely original with the exception of the added Maerklin stove from the 1875 period. Provenance: ex-collection Hanne Buktas, who acquired the kitchen and contents from the estate auction of the celebrated Herblingen castle in Switzerland.