A rare doll, manufactured by German company Kämmer & Reinhardt between 1909 and 1912, realized a sum of £242,500 ($395,750) in an auction held at Bonham’s Knightsbridge salesroom in London, UK, on 24 September 2014 – the most ever fetched by a doll at auction. The lifelike doll is a little girl with plaited auburn hair and blue-grey eyes, wearing a lace-sleeved white dress, a straw hat and white shoes and stockings. There are no other examples of this doll known – she is believed to have been an experimental design that was never put into production.
Kämmer & Reinhardt was a well-known manufacturer of “character dolls” from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century. Ernst Kämmer modelled the heads of the dolls from bisque – a hard, unglazed type of porcelain. The material has a glare-free appearance, giving the dolls a powdery, soft complexion.
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