doll's stove for cooking, 1900

As always at that time, toys were made by copying utensils made for adults but miniaturized - and with the same care -! This is the case here, it is a small stove for cooking with embers, which was called a "vegetable garden". Like the one used by “grown-ups”. Made with earthenware tiles (from desvres) on a wooden frame, the cooking rings are made of cast iron to withstand the heat; the sides are made of sheet metal; the 2 front drawers to collect the copper ashes. Beautiful item in good condition. The only thing to note: a protrusion of one of the back tiles.