No. 17

Giselle

Modern Artist Doll (reproduction)

Details

Name

Giselle

Type

Modern reproduction

Artist

Anna Miller

Original sculpt

Roelie Broeksma-Muller (Netherlands), mold name 'Giselle'

Mold

Seeley's

Height

60 cm

About this doll

'Giselle' has a brown bob with a red bow and wears a three-tiered red polka-dot dress. Her slightly downcast eyes and calm expression, so different from the big round eyes of an antique doll, are typical of the modern artist doll.

She is a modern reproduction made by Anna Miller from a Seeley's mold of 'Giselle', a sculpt by the Dutch doll artist Roelie Broeksma-Muller.

Background

Porcelain dollmaking took off as a hobby in the United States in the 1970s. At first it centered on reproductions cast from antique dolls, but a 'modern doll' field soon grew up in which contemporary artists sculpted their own originals and sold the molds. Some companies, such as Expressions, founded by Dianna Effner in Missouri, specialized entirely in artist-designed molds.

Roelie Broeksma-Muller is a Dutch doll artist whose book 'Freundinnen' was published in Germany in 1994 and whose sculpts were also issued as reproduction molds. Modern dolls aim at the natural expression and proportions of a real child and at contemporary dress, and their painting emphasizes realistic eyes and skin tones.

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