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  2. Petronella Oortman - Wikipedia

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    By way of comparison, Petronella de la Court's dollhouse, for which 1,600 pieces of furniture and paintings and 28 fine dolls were commissioned, was sold in 1744 for 1,200 guilders. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Already celebrated in the 18th century, Oortman's dollhouse was bought by the state in 1821 and purchased by the Rijksmuseum in 1875. [ 5 ]

  3. Thorne miniature rooms - Wikipedia

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    The Knoxville Museum of Art is home to 9 of the remaining rooms, while The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles have one each. [1] Some of the Thorne rooms are miniature replicas of actual rooms. [1] They were constructed on a 1:12 scale, [1] or in other words a scale of 1 inch (2.5 cm) to 1 foot (0.30 ...

  4. Astolat Dollhouse Castle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. National Museum of Toys and Miniatures - Wikipedia

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    The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures, formerly known as the Kansas City Toy and Miniature Museum, [1] is located on the campus of the University of Missouri Kansas City. (Bequeathed to the University in the 1960s, the home was originally designed for physician Herbert Tureman in 1906 by noted architect John McKecknie and completed by 1911.)

  6. Nuremberg kitchen - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of Nuremberg kitchens has usually been explained by dolls' house historians as meant to teach girls lessons in housekeeping and cooking. [7] However, these model kitchens are probably better understood as meant to encourage girls to adopt traditionally gendered social roles by making housekeeping seem fascinating through the appeal ...

  7. Titania's Palace - Wikipedia

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    Titania's Palace is a miniature castle (dollhouse) that was hand-built in Ireland by James Hicks & Sons, Irish Cabinet Makers, who were commissioned by Sir Nevile Wilkinson from 1907 to 1922. Wilkinson's daughter Guendolen claimed to have seen a fairy running under the roots of a tree, in a wood beside their home at Mount Merrion House.

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