Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2476Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: October 10, 2009 11:00AM
Description:
Early Wooden Dolls in an Early Victorian Domed Vignette, with a papier-mache faux landscape and tree limbs, containing seven Grodnertal-type wood dolls of various sizes, c. 1820, all with gessoed and painted shoulder heads, black painted hair with various hairstyles, peg-jointed bodies and limbs, painted lower arms and legs, wearing original costumes, dome ht. 18 in. dia. 14.5 in., (excellent).
Estimate $8,000-10,000
Excellent.