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Tudor style doll's house circa 1930. A dollhouse or doll's house is a toy house made in miniature.Since the early 20th century dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children, but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults.
A bisque doll or porcelain doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque or biscuit porcelain. Bisque dolls are characterized by their realistic, skin-like matte finish. They had their peak of popularity between 1860 and 1900 with French and German dolls. Bisque dolls are collectible, and antique dolls can be worth thousands of dollars.
Antique china dolls were predominantly produced in Germany, from around 1840 into the 1930s [3] with the peak in popularity between roughly 1850 and 1890. [4] [5] The earliest china dolls depicted grown women and were dressed in contemporary, fashionable clothes. [5] These dolls display contemporary hairstyles: sausage curls, ribbons or headbands.
Annalee Dolls, Inc., also known as Annalee Mobilitee Dolls Inc., and AMD Holdings Inc., [1] [2] is a company located in Meredith, New Hampshire, that manufactures collectible dolls. The company was founded by Barbara Annalee Davis (later Thorndike), who died in 2002.
The Astolat Dollhouse Castle was acquired by collector L. Freeman in 1996 and moved to the Nassau County Museum of Art. [18] Freeman is an avid collector of dollhouses and since her acquisition of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle she has continually upgraded its interiors with additional one-of-a-kind antique miniatures, tiny antique furniture, and paintings in addition to those that already ...
A typical antique china doll has a white glazed porcelain head with painted molded hair and a body made of cloth or leather. The name comes from china being used to refer to the material porcelain. They were mass-produced in Germany , peaking in popularity between 1840 and 1890 and selling in the millions.
Queen Mary's Dolls' house. Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for the British queen Mary of Teck.It was designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, with contributions from many notable artists and craftsmen of the period, including a library of miniature books containing original stories written by authors including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ...
The Essex Model House is a notable dollshouse designed by the architect Martin Evans in 1955.. The model house owes it existence to the Essex Handicraft Association, particularly to Mrs St Osyth Mahala Wood, née Eustace-Smith (born in 1886, Hampstead, died on 1 November 1970, Wasperton, Warwickshire) an English campaigner and philanthropist who became a great benefactor to her local community.