A LATE 19TH CENTURY DOLLS HOUSE, POSSIBLY AMERICAN, circa 1880/90 in the style of Moritz & Gottschalk, the two storey house with blue roof, lithograph brickwork detail and bay window to the bottom floor, the interiors with original wallpaper and an assortment of dolls and doll house furniture, to include an Austrian cold painted rug in the form of a tiger hide, a very decorative tin plate fireplace, possibly Evans and Cartwright, a Victorian doll in widows dress and six other bisque dolls, a suite of French style furniture by Walterhausen, 'White Boulle' pattern, with white and gold decoration, to include a square table and four chairs, two sofas covered in dark red velvet, a chest of four drawers, a display cabinet, and mirror, a mantle clock under Victorian glass dome, miniature paintings and pictures, the upper floor with twin white painted metal beds, a red painted Georgian chair with gilt shell detail, further chairs, mirrors, a fireplace, glass pendent light fittings and other assorted miniature ceramics and furnishings, (qty), (damages).

66cm high x 41.5cm wide x 27.5cm deep

From the private single owner estate of a dolls house, dolls and miniatures collector.

Notes:

Walterhausen was the name given to a type of dolls house furniture produced in factories in a small town in Thuringia . The white 'Boulle' pattern furniture found in this dolls house was produced in 1898 according to the Scneegass catalogue held at the museum in Tenneberg. There were apparantly twenty four patterns for 'Boulle' chairs printed at one time on white or dark painted sheets of wood which were then cut and glued together for serial mass production. There are only a few examples still in existence, most remaining in private collections across the world.