$2,133
Painted Glazed Display Case with 1840s Wood Doll Seated on a Ladder-back Chair, America and Continental, 19th century, blue-painted pine box with thumbmolded top, sliding glazed door, on a base with bootjack ends, the interior lined with blue polka-dot wallpaper, containing a carved and jointed wood doll with Apollo-knot hairstyle, wearing a hand-stitched calico-printed cotton dress, white embroidered gauze shawl, and cotton petticoats, seated on a red-painted slat-back wood chair with woven cotton string seat, (loss on corner edge of case top), ht. of case 10, wd. 10 1/2, dp. 4 1/4, doll/chair ht. 5 7/8 in. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Evelyn Kendall, 1976.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
