Objekt 10
Market stalls and sales booths of a fair (in chip box)
Description
This early ensemble is of remarkable completeness. This is shown by comparison with the illustration from the Waldkirchen pattern book. Catalogs such as this were used by wholesalers to present their range of wooden toys so that intermediaries or retailers could order from them.
Object description
Surroundings of Seiffen, Erzgebirge, Saxony, around 1820/40
Wood, turned, carved, painted; papier-mâché overlays
Inv. 1976.109. Gift of Margrit König-Stehle, Basel.