Marionette of young girl with blue flowers in hair

Commedia dell'arte marionette, girl with blue flowers in hair

Conservation assessment: Stable

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

DM number: P11.16

Box: 21

Italy

Purchased by Brander Matthews and George C.D. Odell in Paris, 1925, and Naples, 1926

"Marionettes in Museums of the United States," in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes. Edited by Paul McPharlin, 23-28. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.; Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.

Marionettes (stringed puppets)

ceramic

7"