Description
This 20″ Friedericy Design features a girl sitting on a metal box holding an adorable doll as she reads “The Tales of Peter Rabbit”. The dolls are made of wax over porcelain which gives them a beautiful glow. The large doll wears an elaborate dress made of rust and golden brown brocade fabric with pale tan colored silk sleeves and lace collar accented with a small black and white cameo in a gold setting. Beneath her skirt is a soft pale ivory skirt trimmed in lace as well as leggings and small black leather shoes. Her strawberry blonde hair is accented with a blue silk ribbon bow. The doll is nestled inside her arms and on her lap. She is dressed in a sweet blue and white dress accented with with knitted blue sleeves. Her hair is painted red and the top of her dress is painted blue. Her outfit is accented with a straw hat tied with blue satin bow and decorated with little pale purple roses.
This designl is 20″ tall in a seated position. It is designed and handmade by Judith and Lucia Friedericy and are truly a piece of art.
A childhood love for making dolls and puppets and an educational and professional background in theatre and fashion design all came together over thirty years ago when Lucia Friedericy combined her interests and began a business of “dolls as art”. These whimsical figures are sculpted in porcelain and paper clay on a wire armatured body. The costumes are made from vintage textiles, lace, and silks. Each doll is completely hand-made with my primary inspiration coming from literature and fantasy. Stunning, original, handmade works of art, the classic Friedericy Dolls are one-of-a-kind, wax-over-porcelain art dolls. Never made from a mold-and therefore always unique in its appeal, every doll is hand sculpted by Judith Friedericy. Then each figure is painted, wigged, dipped in wax, costumed in fine fabric, again by hand, by Lucia, an award-winning theatrical costume designer. The classic Friedericy themes of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, children, literary characters and authors are brought to life by Lucia.
