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Theatre and puppets of Cartelli

Theatre and puppets of Cartelli. French. Puppets have carved wooden heads (13-15 cm with neck), real hair and glass eyes, eyelet for vertical rod to head, jointed, wooden bodies about 63.5 cm high. 19 men, 8 women, 1 ghost, 1 black sorcerer, 2 Chinese dancers, 2 devil masks, and 1 face. 5 trick figures, 5 silhouette figures of magistrates, and 4 flat metal skeletons. Also, collapsible framework for theatre, proscenium, curtain and scenery. Costumes for 6 puppets only.

Harlequin

An eighteenth-century puppet of Harlequin, a character from the Commedia dell'Arte. String puppet of the simpler kind, (see also P1). From a Paris puppet theatre of 1760.

King of Nativity

Puppet of one of the three kings of the Nativity. Probably from the region of Lille in French Flanders. Of the simpler kind of string puppet.

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