A Fine Pretending Tea

A Fine Pretending Tea Join Theriault's for an exceptional auction of fine antique dolls – more than 400 will be auctioned in the Saturday catalog session ranging from very rare French bees highlighted by a petite kid-bodied A.T. Bebe from a private family owner, to rare German bisque characters including Hertel and Schwab's 111 solemn faced girl. An Exceptional group of dolls formerly in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection will be sold to benefit their education department collection and inc
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A Fully Perfected Grace

By Florence Theriault. In 1870, Leon Casimir Bru described his wooden-bodied poupee as having “a fully perfected grace.” It is a phrase that aptly describes the entire world of the French fashion doll from 1850–1880. This beautiful hard bound book, with 2

A Whispering Of Dolls

By Florence Theriault. This is the third in the a series of books about little dolls, known affectionately by collectors as " the little ones" or "pocket dolls" and it includes more than 200 rare examples with details of faces, bodies and marks, and heart

Albert Marque, A Sculptor, A Doll

By Francois Theimer. The author audaciously claims the Marque doll as a national symbol of France, and in his remakable book, tells all the reasons why. Readers will learn the bacgroung of the artist, his place in the Renaissance of the French doll movement, and see extensive photographs of the Marque doll in original costumes. 120 pages. Hardbound.

Archives The Doll As Art 2

Archives: The Doll As Art IIII By Stuart Holbrook. The visual study of the doll as art continues in this super-sized art book, a portable museum filled with the world's most beautiful antique dolls. A fascinating book for the doll collector, an indispensable tool for the doll artist. 12 ?" x 12 ?". Hardbound. 150 pages. 133 full page color photographs. BT-152. $68.

Beautiful Jumeau

By Florence Theriault. More than 100 beautiful Jumeau dolls in full color are featured in this exquisite art-quality book. Face and body photographs and descriptions of bebes, fashion dolls, and characters are included. Completing this treasure trove of J

Blowing Bubbles

Bru Book, Revised Edition

By Francois Theimer. English Edition edited by Florence Theriault. The first edition of The Bru Book has stood at the pinnacle of the antique doll world for years, not only as the finest work of the prestigious French doll firm, but also as the definitive example of what an antique doll book should be: completely detailed history from the people to the patents, fully photographed in every detail. That's half right. The revised edition of the Bru Book contains all this extensisve historical backg
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Cherished Collection

Madame Andrée Petyt, the elegant European lady whose collection was visited by Belgian royalty, never played with dolls as a child. She came to dolls, she explained, through a love of fashion and an enduring fascination with doll costumes and the history