| China, Parian & Bisque German Dolls: Ca. 1840-Ca. 1900 |  | Author: Lydia Richter
Publisher: Hobby House Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $42.10
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 830996
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0875884113
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.72210943
EAN: 9780875884110
Publication Date: October 1993
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Product Description
Every captivating color photograph will have you turning the page for more! 500 color photos out of 588 total from the firms: Alt, Beck & Gottschalck, Dressel, Hertel Schwab, Heubach, Kling, Simon & Halbig, plus 16 others. Thus the book identifies heads dating from 1840-1900 with their respective manufacturers.
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Description from Dust Jacket February 15, 2007
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"A large number of beautiful and unusaul photographic material, many of the early dolls with china, parian and bisque heads are presented in this book for the delight of collectors and art enthusiasts. Skillfully modeled hair styles and trimmings adorned these dolls. Through their subtlely and artistic modelling they are often far more valuable as an art object than a play doll. Since many of them are sought after by collectors, this book presents for the first time in great diversity and color, a wide selection of the most beautiful dolls. They are the oldest among the china head dolls, especially remarkable, and their past extends up to the Royal Porcelain Manufacturers of the 19th century from Meissen and Berlin. Until now their past lay rather poorly illuminated, so that very little was known about these dolls. Only in the last few years has painstaking detective work by comparison of old findings determined new information. Thus was it possible, for the first time to associate a larger number of doll heads to their respective manufacturers. This book illuminates a largely unknown chapter of doll history, offers new knowledge and provides the collector and student of art with valuable help in appreciating, identifying and collecting the modelled hair dolls of the 19th century German dolls."
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