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Lot 977
RARE 19THC PARISIENNE FASHION DOLL a rare Parisienne lady doll possibly by Huret. Circa 1860/70's, with a bisque swivel head and shoulder plate, fixed blue eyes, closed mouth and pierced ears. With a kid leather gusseted body and separate stitched fingers and toes. Incised mark on the front of the shoulder plate, Depose, 2 B. 26ins (66cms) high
Lot 241
Kley & Hahn bisque head doll having sleeping eyes and open mouth, jointed composition body, the head stamped K.H. 250 Walkure, 52cm high together with an Armand Marseilles bisque head doll having sleeping eyes and open mouth, composition body, the head stamped Armand Marseilles 990 A.6M., 40cm high Condition: Nibbles to hands and feet - **General condition consistent with age
Lot 1
Rare large Montanari poured wax shoulder head doll, English circa 1860, with brown glass eyes, painted brows, open/closed mouth with painted red lips and teeth, moulded chin with dimple, ears and inserted short brown wig, well moulded shoulder plate to cloth body with ink writing ‘ Montanari, 180 Soho Bazaar, London’, and having wax lower arms and legs with creases to elbows and wrists, wearing a white broderie Anglaise dress and undergarments, 29” (74cm) tall.
Lot 10
Rare wax over composition oriental shoulder head doll, German circa 1860, with black glass eyes, shaded cheeks and hair in long single plait, on a cloth body with composition lower arms and legs, wearing original red and gold dress with embroidered ribbon decoration and undergarments, 12 ½” (32cm) tall.
Lot 100
Five Norah Welling’s cloth dolls, English 1930’s, including a Chinese girl with velvet head, painted features, black hair with pink and green felt flowers and swivel head, wearing a pink velvet kimono with decoration and pink slippers, 13” (33cm) tall, together with Norah Welling’s Soldier, Bell-boy, Mexican, black boy and a cloth doll, (all a little play worn), (6 items).
Lot 101
Lenci ‘Farm Girl’ felt doll, Italian 1930’s, the moulded felt head with painted side-glancing brown eyes, shaded lips and shoulder length auburn hair, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, wearing original green felt dungarees with white shirt, brown sandals and cloth hat, (some mottling to face), 17” (43cm) tall.
Lot 102
Lenci cloth doll, Italian 1930’s, the felt head with painted features, sewn on ears and blonde hair, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, wearing a brightly coloured felt dress with pink bodice and multi-coloured skirt, cloche-style bonnet with applique cockerel, socks and shoes, (some fading to face), 20” (51cm) tall, together with a Lenci in American Indian clothing, (a/f), (2 items).
Lot 108
Ideal Shirley Temple doll, American 1930’s, the composition head with weighted green eyes, lashes, open mouth and upper teeth, short brown hair and swivel head to composition body jointed at shoulders and hips, wearing original red sailor style dress, badge, socks and shoes, (some crazing to face) 15” (38cm) tall, together with blue organza dress and bonnet, red dress, pink felt jacket, socks and hat and bonnet, with a composition baby on rubber body, wearing original dress and bonnet.
Lot 109
Composition ‘Shirley Temple’ doll, probably Ideal, American 1930’s, with weighted green eyes, (crazed), open mouth with teeth and dimples, curly light brown hair and on a five piece body, wearing original cream dress with green polka-dots, original badge and velvet beret, 16” (41cm) tall, together with a framed picture of Shirley Temple, (2 items).
Lot 115
A rare Miniature Room set in the style of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser’s Viennese Succession movement, circa 1908, the wooden (probably birch) cube with double hinged lid and lift-out front panel held closed by hooks and eyes, the exterior decorated with geometric stencilled star pattern fitted with two pairs of black, hinged, window shutters and a turned wooden bell-push as light switch to right side. Interior walls painted in orange with yellow and black chequer and dot frieze. Ceiling with hanging lampshade of strings of green glass beads with light wired to battery compartment wardrobe. Floor with chequer patterned carpet in beige and black. Suite of wooden furniture all painted in grey with white dot border decoration comprising wardrobe with bevel glass mirror door, bed with pillows, mattress, embroidered sheet and blanket with black and green geometric patterned sides and green bobble decoration, bedside pot cupboard and planter, dressing table with metal looking glass, square box table and two stools, two seat sofa with embroidered cushions, two arm chairs with embroidered cushions and seated bisque doll wearing black and white chequer dress , blue card folding screen with hand-painted, white, green and black geometric decoration, two plain white ‘sheer’ curtains hung on metal rings on curtain rail. Walls decorated with two hand painted pictures (woman with cat and winged angel – the latter slightly reminiscent of Gustav Klimt’s painting ‘Hoffnung II’), two embroidered pictures and one bevel glass mirror, all in metal frames hung by cord, 8 5/8x8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (22x22x22cm). History and Provenance: At the end of the 19th century young progressive artists in Vienna set up the break-away movement known as the Secession. Amongst its prominent members were the architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) and the designer Koloman Moser (1868-1918). Both were ‘admirers of English applied art; the mood in the world of Viennese applied art around 1900 was Anglophile and progressive’. Work of the British designers, C.R. Ashbee and C.R. Mackintosh who were viewed as the inheritors of the Ruskin-Morris tradition, featured in their 1900 exhibition and influenced subsequent design developments in Vienna. Ashbee’s work was exhibited regularly in Vienna during the first decade of the 20th century. In 1903 Hoffmann and Moser founded the “Wiener Werkstätte, Produktivgenossenschaft von Kunsthandwerkern in Wien” after Hoffmann had been to England and very probably visited Ashbee’s socialist co-operative, “The Guild of Handicraft”. ‘The declared aim of the Wiener Werkstätte was to vanquish the evils of machine manufacturing and the mass production to which it had given rise. It also wished to re-establish direct contact between consumer and producer.’ Artists wished to unify art and life and interior design offered the opportunity to put this into practice. One of the most notable examples was the Purkersdorf Sanatorium designed by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser in 1904-1906 – ‘a synthesis of form and function, of aesthetics and economy, of the outer form…and the activities pursued within’ – where contrasting squares of colour occur throughout. The use of chequered patterns became a sort of Hoffmann trade mark and they featured again, for example, in his design for the Cabaret Fledermaus in 1907. In 1908 Hoffmann designed the exhibition pavilions for the Kunstschau in Vienna that featured the work of Gustav Klimt and his followers as well as the Wiener Werkstätte. Within that exhibition was a special hall, room 29, which was devoted to Kunst für das Kind (Art for the child) and included a number of dolls houses designed and made by students at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen under the direction of Professor Adolf Böhm. So far it has not been possible to establish whether the doll’s roomset offered here was actually one of those exhibits but it was undoubtedly inspired by and made as a tribute to the work of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser at around this period. It was acquired by the English furniture designer and retailer Ambrose Heal and found its way to England. The period at the turn of the twentieth century was exactly the time when Ambrose Heal (1872-1959) was at his most productive and in contact with the latest design developments across Europe. Before he had set up his own cabinet workshops, his very first bedroom suite designs were manufactured by C.R. Ashbee’s ‘Guild of Handicraft’ in 1897. Ambrose Heal (he was knighted in 1933 and elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 1939) was the man who was responsible for establishing the high design standards for which the Heal family furnishing business in London became known. He had begun using chequer patterns in his designs as early as 1900 but from 1902 it featured prominently not only on furniture but as a border to the company’s advertising. He would therefore have followed with interest its subsequent adoption and development by Hoffmann. Another interesting parallel is that from 1908 onwards Heal’s began to specialise in children’s furniture so that they were invited to furnish an ‘Ideal Modern Nursery’ at the ‘Children’s Welfare Exhibition’ held at Olympia in 1912. An inventory carried out in February 1914 at Ambrose Heal’s home, ‘The Fives Court’, Pinner, by Maple & Co. for the purpose of insurance, listed under the contents of the drawing room “Viennese small wood dolls house & toys £2 2s 0d”. It has remained in the family ever since.
Lot 12
Wax over composition shoulder head lady doll, German circa 1860, the slightly turned head with blue glass eyes, painted mouth and blonde hair-style with red ribbon, on a cloth body with wax over lower arms and composition lower legs with painted brown heeled boots, wearing original blue dress with embroidered cream sash and undergarments, 11 ½” (29cm) tall, together with a glazed china shoulderhead doll, (head restored, incorrect body) and ‘The History of Wax Dolls’ by Mary Hillier, (3 items).
Lot 125
Collection of eleven miniature dolls, German circa 1905, including a dressed bride with bisque head, open mouth and weighted blue eyes, on a five-piece composition body with moulded socks and shoes, (loss to one shoe), 4 ¾” (12cm) tall, together with an all bisque with swivel head, body jointed at shoulder and hips, wearing blue dress and white apron (lacks one arm) another smaller all bisque with painted eyes, (head detached) five small all bisque dolls with moulded hair and painted features a shoulder head doll and two other (lacking limbs).
Lot 13
Large wax over composition shoulder head doll, English circa 1860, with blue glass eyes, painted brows and slightly smiling mouth, rouged cheeks and blonde wig, on a cloth body with brown leather arms and turned in feet, wearing original cream gown with red stitched pattern, cape, red velvet bonnet, undergarments and leather shoes, 30” (76cm) tall.
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