How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible Maria Teresa Hart - Author, Doll November ...

But the dolls actually served a greater purpose than just being pretty playthings for girls in the mid to late-Victorian period. “Girls would learn to take care of the dolls, they would sew for ...

High fashion and art will merge in the form of Victorian porcelain dolls at a Luminato exhibit opening in June. Dolls by Viktor&Rolf features precisely scaled-down versions of designs by the famed ...

Antique dolls were found during a building assessment of Moncton's Thomas Williams House, built in 1833. And they were promptly put back by the construction worker who found them.

In the Nineteenth century, Victorian mourning dolls were a standard element of the grieving process. Their dainty porcelain faces were painted in extraordinary likeness of a dead child, sometimes ...

A DARLINGTON artist is giving hundreds of Victorian dolls a modern make-over. Michelle Temperley-Laverick is searching for a ‘doll’s house’ in which to work on her unique collection of ...

News World news Toys Student spends £7,560-a-year and three hours-a-day on bizarre hobby living as a real life Victorian doll Medora Ruiz has spent the past two years dressing like her beloved ...