Italian Princess Marionette
date: label: Date made
content: 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The princess is exquisitively dressed in a ruffled pink silk dress adorned with black lace, fine gold mesh trim and a silk rose. Her body and appendages are made of wood and her face is made of molded felt. Her blond hair is topped with a felt gold crown and her face is finely painted. She is worked with eight strings and two bars. Probably of Italian provenance, this beautiful marionette dates to around 1900.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This marionette, dressed like a princess, is probably one of a pair with The Prince marionette (1979.1164.03). They appear to have been made by the same artisan.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
topic: label: general subject association
content: Puppetry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Puppets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hazelle H. and J. Woodson Rollins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1164.04
label: accession number
content: 1979.1164
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1164.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in; 40.64 cm