Sold for:
$1,645
$1,645
Swinging Grodnertal Shell Doll, Continental, c. 1835, peg-wooden doll with painted features and carved ringlets, kicking legs portraying motion, in shell-adorned summer dress and bonnet, seated in a vine swing with outstretched arms grasping shell-flower tendrils (minor shell loss), doll approx. ht. 4, housed in tall round glass dome, overall ht. 14 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-04-12