Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2585BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 04, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Three Papier-mache Lady Dolls, a Wooden Doll, and Two Glass Display Domes, the papier-mache lady dolls, Germany, mid-19th century, with molded heads, painted facial features, and black hair with Apollo knot and sausage curl hair styles, milliner's model kid bodies with wooden limbs, dressed in lace-trimmed white cotton gauze dresses, petticoats and pantalets, with red painted-on shoes; a carved wooden doll with jointed shoulders and legs and painted face; together with two domed glass display cases on tuned wood bases, (imperfections),ht. 12 1/2, 16 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600
Cracks to the painted papier-mache, and scattered small paint losses.