Heidi Ott Miniature Dollhouse Dolls

Name: Heidi Ott Miniature Dollhouse Dolls (Kia and a crawling baby)

Made by and When: Heidi Ott, 2019

Marks: Both dolls are unmarked

The details of the dolls’ heights, the materials, the hair, eyes, mouths, and clothing are included in the following paragraphs and images:

Kia is a 4-inch resin doll with a posable cloth body. This dollhouse doll has black yarn braids, brown-painted eyes, and a closed mouth with brown-painted lips. Representing a teenager, Kia wears a green traditional African-inspired dress with a multicolored (green/orange/yellow) overlay. Gold-tone hoop earrings are attached to a matching bead-accented headwrap.  A beaded bracelet adorns Kia’s left wrist. The straps of Kia’s bead-adorned sandals are made from the multicolored overlay fabric. A doll stand was included.

Sold nude, the 2-1/2-inch crawling baby is made of resin with a brown stockinette body.  The baby has sculpted and painted black curly hair and hand-painted facial features.  Dressed by the curator, the baby wears a hand-crocheted pink dress, a bonnet, and booties designed expressly for Heidi Ott’s miniature babies.

Other: Heidi Ott began creating her renowned 1:12-scale miniature dolls in Switzerland in the mid-1970s (approx. 1976). She began this work out of a lifelong fascination with small things and a desire to create high-quality, fully poseable, detailed dolls and accessories for dollhouses. Heidi redirected her dollmaking to 1:12-scale miniatures around 2004 after making larger dolls for several years.

Gallery

_________

Your comments are valued. Donations support the initiative to preserve Black-doll history. 

If you subscribe to DeeBeeGee’s Virtual Black Doll Museum™ by email, click the post title of the email, which links to the website to view all text and associated media. Please “like” and share this installation with your social media contacts. If you’d like to subscribe, add your email address to the subscribe or sign-up field in the footer or right sidebar. Add your email address to the subscribe or sign-up field in the footer or right sidebar.