"ROSALIE - A Life of Dolls" DAY ONE. Marquis Doll Auction Weekend

Saturday, January 6, 2024Lots 1-296

Saturday, January 6, 2024 at the JW Marriott Camelback Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ. Preview 9AM MT. Auction 11AM MT.

Theriault’s legendary January auction weekend ushers in Part One of the very important antique doll collection of Rosalie Whyel, founder of the Museum of Doll Art in Bellevue, WA. Plan ahead now to attend this memorable event in person. Ask for more details, request a free color brochure (available now). There are 600 lots in the important two-day auction. Your attendance is welcome. Order the Auction Catalog for this Event.

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American Cloth Doll by Izannah Walker with Furnishings and Accessories

American Cloth Doll by Izannah Walker with Furnishings and Accessories

Lot #4

20" (51 cm.) All-cloth doll, stitched-on head with pressed, stiffened and oil-painted facial features and hair, stitched-on ears, large outlined brown eyes, single stroke brows, closed mouth with center line between the pale lips, brown painted hair with two shaded ringlet curls in front of ear and six ringlet curls at back of head, muslin stitch-jointed body with oil-painted lower arms and legs, wearing original red cotton dress with white apron, undergarments, stockings and leather shoes. Condition: very good, original finish with typical light craquelure, nose rub. Comments: Izannah Walker, circa 1870s, the doll was acquired by the Museum from the family of the original owner, along with various furniture and accessories which the family had preserved along with the doll, including an early wooden paint decorated box filled with various ephemera and incidentals including woolen shawl, paisley wrap, velvet bonnet with milliner's label of Miss G. M. Rea, Fine Millinery, Concord N.H., undergarments, toys including early patched cloth elephant, miniature books including Willie's Western Visit and Great Truths in Simple Words for Little Children, a remarkable miniature album of hand-woven hair samples, and more; along with an unusual wooden rocker with birch bark hinged seat, and spinning wheel. The doll is shown in the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Whyel and Susan Hedrick, page 74/75.

Estimate: $14,000 / $18,000
Rare German Bisque Character "Struwwelpeter" by Kammer and Reinhardt in Original Costume

Rare German Bisque Character "Struwwelpeter" by Kammer and Reinhardt in Original Costume

Lot #35

17" (43 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass flirty eyes in half-moon shape, thick upper eyeliner and lashes, modeled arched brows, pointy tip nose, closed mouth with smiling lips, double crease laughter lines in each cheek, dimpled philtrum, white mohair wig in "shock-haired" wild fashion, composition and wooden ball-jointed body with modeled upturned brown-painted shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Kammer and Reinhardt, circa 1913. Their 124 model was originally designed to represent Moritz from the original German children's story, Max and Moritz, by Wilhelm Busch; this example of that same model is presented as a different storybook character, "Struwwelpeter" (shock-haired Peter), based on an 1845 German children's book by Heinrich Hoffman. That book was enjoying a revival in Germany in the early 1900s, and several dollmakers presented versions of Struwwelpeter, including Steiff. This presentation by Kammer and Reinhardt is very rare and was likely a special commission order; another example is shown in Cieslik's German Doll Encyclopedia, page 3. Value Points: wonderful and very rare portrayal of high-spirited mirthful child, with choicest bisque, original unique body, original wig, is wearing original silk costume with bead and silk fringe accents. The doll is featured in the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Whyel and Susan Hedrick, page 235.

Estimate: $14,000 / $18,000
Important Early Grodnertal Doll "Miss Maude Middleton" with Trousseau and Provenance

Important Early Grodnertal Doll "Miss Maude Middleton" with Trousseau and Provenance

Lot #39

32" (81 cm.) All-wooden doll of slender-bodied woman, one-piece head and torso with oval-shaped head, elongated strong neck, modeled bosom with defined neckline, swivel waist, mortise and tenon jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, painted red flat shoes, black sculpted hair drawn smoothly behind the fully-sculpted ears and forming into a narrow braided coronet at her crown, which encircles a decorative red ornament, sculpted facial features, painted and outlined blue eyes in well-defined sockets, lightly feathered brows, closed mouth with primly set lips, wearing blue/ivory silk plaid high waisted gown with intricate detail of construction, undergarments, and earrings. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Grodnertal, circa 1815, the details of carving and extra waist articulation, as well as her size, indicate luxury production. Value Points: wonderfully-preserved doll with great presence owns an extensive trousseau including three additional gowns, magnificent purple textured silk coat, extensive undergarments and accessories, two pairs of custom kid slippers, pockets, caps, and an early hide-covered wooden trunk. Several of the costumes have attached paper tag "Maude Middleton" likely indicating the name of original owner or the name given the doll. The doll was featured on the cover of Doll News, September 1995, and is featured in the book, The Heart of the Tree, by Rosalie Whyel and Jill Gorman, pages 70-75.

Estimate: $28,000 / $40,000
Important Pair of French Bisque Bebes by Maison Huret with Costumes and Provenance

Important Pair of French Bisque Bebes by Maison Huret with Costumes and Provenance

Lot #66

18" (46 cm.) Each has pressed bisque socket head with dainty features centered in the plump rounded face, full cheeks with pronounced double chin, light bulb-shaped neck, delicately feathered brown lashes and brows, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with shaded and outlined lips, gutta percha bebe body based upon the Huret deposed body design, dowel-articulation at the shoulders, elbows, hips and knee joints, bisque hands with separately defined fingers and knuckles. One doll has pale blue glass eyes with spiral threading and blonde mohair wig over cork pate; the other has amber brown glass eyes with spiral threading and blonde lambswool wig. Condition: generally excellent, some typical restoration to body joints, bisque head and hands perfect. Marks: Huret 54 Boulv. Haussman Paris (kid torso band). Comments: Maison Huret, circa 1880. Value Points: extremely rare dolls are quite extraordinary to find as a pair, their provenance and discovery documented in an article appearing in Doll News, 1994; the pair likely originated from the same French estate. Included with dolls, which are costumed in original fine dresses and matching bonnets, are two velvet coats, additional costumes, four various bonnets, undergarments, leather leggings, and an early wooden case with hinged lid. The dolls are each wearing shoes with the shop label of A La Tentation, a Paris doll shop located at 22 Passage Vendome in 1879.

Estimate: $50,000 / $70,000
Very Important English 18th Century Wooden Dolls in Original Native American Crees Costumes

Very Important English 18th Century Wooden Dolls in Original Native American Crees Costumes

Lot #147

16" (41 cm.), 13" and 7". Each of the all-wooden dolls has one-piece head and torso, painted-over-gesso complexion and facial features, blush spots; the two larger with enamel inset eyes, dot lashes, dot-arched brows, cloth upper arms and wooden lower legs with hip jointing, and tacked-on human hair hand-knotted wig; the smaller arranged in cradleboard, with painted outlined eyes, cloth arms, hip-jointed wooden legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: English, late 1700s, in original authentic costume of the Eastern Cree Indians who were major trading partners of the English Hudson Bay Company, and it is certain that this partnership influenced this present set of dolls. In an article "A Collaboration of Cultures", Susan Hedrick, then curator at the Rosalie Whyel Museum, wrote "trade with Europeans gradually affected the Cree culture, including their model of dress. Early clothing...was most likely made of buckskin, cedar bark and mountain goat wool. Later garments, post European contact, were constructed of navy blue and red blanket cloth (English stroud wool) and trimmed with buttons, glass beads and even thimbles. The Museum's Cree dolls reflect a transition period between these two styles, providing an important pictorial record of Cree clothing from this period." Value Points: very important historically, the dolls are also a visual triumph, with extraordinary and authentically-detailed costumes, of which only two other examples are known to exist. The dolls are featured in the book, The Art of the Tree, by Rosalie Whyel and Jill Gorman, pp.60/61, and the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Whyel and Susan Hedrick, pp. 10/11, with further information about the costumes.

Estimate: $40,000 / $60,000
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Extremely Rare French Bisque Bebe Musique by Leon Casimir Bru

Extremely Rare French Bisque Bebe Musique by Leon Casimir Bru

Lot #178

17" (43 cm.) Pressed bisque socket head with thick neck socket designed to perfectly accommodate the wooden torso neck opening, plumply modeled cheeks and chin, almond-shaped blue glass enamel inset eyes with spiral threading, painted lashes, brushstroked and multi-feathered brows, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with modeled space between the lips, and delicately painted teeth, shaded and outlined lips, blushed chin and earlobes, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, wooden articulated body with slender torso, rounded derriere, dowel jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, separately carved fingers, carved toes, two costumes are included along with Bru leather shoes signed "B" in script. The interior of the torso contains a musical mechanism which is wound through a keyhole at the back torso. Condition: professional restoration at left forehead, mechanism functions well, body is excellent with original finish. Marks: Bte SGDG (top of forehead) (circle dot symbol back of head). Comments: Leon Casimir Bru, circa 1882, the early version of the model "Bebe Musique" was only mentioned in 1882 and 1883 in a simple three-word description in his firm's advertisements. Value Points: extremely rare doll of which only two examples are known, the rarity, the intricacy of the mechanism and the exceptional quality of the music box suggests that its production may have been by special commission only.

Estimate: $12,000 / $15,000