Older children will be spoiled: the Galerie de Chartres is organizing an auction on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the theme of collectible dolls and their environment in the Sainte-Foy chapel, broadcast live on the Internet. . 530 lots are to be acquired: games, stuffed animals, old dolls of all kinds but also miniature objects, crockery and furniture on a reduced scale.
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The highlight of the sale is a magnificent Napoleon III doll house, dating from 1865 and estimated between € 12,000 and € 18,000. Neoclassical Renaissance style in waxed walnut, it reproduces identically a real house with its interiors hung with brocaded silks, its glass windows that can be opened, its inlaid parquet floors, its chimneys topped by an ice and its roof imitating scales .
Exhibited in 1901 at the Petit Palais
“Such a piece is very rare on the market, especially in France, specifies Me Jean-Pierre Lelièvre, auctioneer of the Galerie de Chartres in charge of the auction. It was presented at the opening exhibition of the Petit palace in Paris in 1901. “
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This collector’s item was then richly furnished. A postcard from the 1901 exhibition mentions that it belonged to Mrs. Mathieu Alphen.
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Among the other remarkable lots of the auction: a baby Bru estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 €, a fashion doll and his original clothes, from the Napoleon III period, estimated 2,000 to 3,000 € and a whole collection of apartments and miniature objects.
A sale in small masked committee
As part of the deconfinement and the respect of sanitary rules, about thirty people can be welcomed, Saturday May 16, 2020, at the Sainte-Foy chapel, where the auction of the Galerie de Chartres will take place. The mask is mandatory and it is necessary to notify its presence by email: [email protected] or by phone on 02.37.88.28.28. The auction will be broadcast live on Interenchères website.
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Laurence Franceschina
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