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Miniature Figurine, Fairy Castle

Specifications

Miniature Figurine, Fairy Castle

Category

Art, Architecture, and Design

Classification

CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Statue - Figurine
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Miniature

Object Origin
Date Created:

1928-1935

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Miniature gold figurine of an old female figure in a shoe. The head and upper body of the female figure is visible emerging from the shoe's opening. The front face of shoe is hinged and opens to reveal the rest of the female figure. There is a spherical knob at the front center of the shoe, allowing the shoe front to be opened. There is a decorative pattern engraved on the sides of the shoe and a ring attached to the toe.

Materials:

gold

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 0.5 in, Length: 0.8 in, Width: 0.3 in

Credit

Gift of Colleen Moore, 49.129.297

Display Status

On Exhibit

Miniature Figurine, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Figurine, Fairy Castle

About: Miniature Figurine, Fairy Castle

Sitting on a bookshelf in the Library is a gold-colored figurine of an old woman inside a shoe. The figurine represents the children’s nursery rhyme “There was an Old Women Who Lived in a Shoe.”

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