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Pixie
02|Jan|2010 1Dollhouse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting have also fascinated a large number of adults. The very same dollhouses often appeal to both groups but very young children (age 3 years and under) should be restricted from access to the great majority of these domestic replicas because of choking hazards.
Today’s doll’s house traces its history directly back about four hundred years to the “baby houses” of Europe. The baby houses were cabinet display cases made up of rooms. The cabinets were built with architectural details and filled with miniature household items and were solely the playthings of adults. They were off-limits to children, not because of safety concerns for the child but for the dollhouse. Such cabinet houses [1] were trophy collections owned by the few matrons living in the cities of Holland, England and Germany who were wealthy enough to afford them, and, fully furnished, were worth the price of a modest full-size house’s construction.
Early European Dollhouses
Several magnificent antique dollhouses are on exhibit in Museums around the world. Although these houses were not constructed to capture an era, activities of daily living are shown in such great detail in some of them that the viewer gains some insight into domestic life of the times.
Dutch – The Doll’s House of Petronella Oortman c. 1686-1705. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam estimates that P. Oortman spent twenty to thirty thousand guilders on her “model house”, the price of a real house along one of Amsterdam’s canals at that time. This doll’s house shows the linen room (laundry room), kitchen, and bedrooms in great detail – which serve to illustrate the workings of the household of that era.
English-The Tate House (1760), on Exhibit in The Museum of Childhood in London.
A German Doll House from the 1700′s is on display at the Denver Museum of Miniatures Dolls and Toys on loan from the Denver Art Museum. In addition the Denver Museum of Miniatures,Dolls and Toys has two European shops from the 1800′s on display
Danny E
02|Jan|2010 2Danny Devito and Dudley Moore
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