Antique Dollhouse Sara Rothé 1743 Netherlands

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Dollhouse Lita de Ranitz 1910 The Hague the Netherlands

Aristocrat Lita de Ranitz left a large collection of dolls, doll`s houses and doll`s clothes and accessories to the Costume Museum in The Hague. Lita identified strongly with her doll`s house and traveled all over Europe in search of miniature and household objects for it. Particularly notable are the minuscule paintings by the famous Hague School artists she knew so well.

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Private Collection of Maria de Vogel van Aalst 1790-1800

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Faith Bradford's Dolls House

This miniature house was designed, decorated, and furnished by Faith Bradford (1880-1970). It is five stories tall with 23 rooms and contains over 1,354 small-scale components. The house is home to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll, their 10 children, two visiting grandparents, five servants and 20 pets. In 1951 Faith Bradford donated the Dolls' House collection to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, now known as the National Museum of American History.

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