10 Most Expensive Dollhouses

1. Name of Dollhouse: “Queen Mary’s Dollhouse”.
Price: Priceless
Descrption: Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House is the largest, most beautiful, and most famous dolls’ house in the world. Built for Queen Mary, consort of King George V, by the leading British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1921 and 1924, it includes contributions from over 1,500 of the finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers of the early 20th century.  It served as a portrayal of how the aristocratic homes might look like during the 1920s – furnished with great detail and miniature items that can be found in the Windsor Castle. On the dining room table, you can find Coleman’s Mustard, and in the kitchen, there are Cadbury chocolates. Near the sinks sit tiny bottles of Sunlight, and in the marble hallway there is a long case clock by Cartier.

Many items are copies from well-known companies of the time, there are elevators that run up and down, a garage full of royal limousines, and six luxurious cars supplied by Daimler, Sunbeam, Vauxhall, Lanchester and Rolls-Royce.

The library is filled with seven hundred tiny paintings by well-known artists, as well as over 300 books, miniature original poems and short stories from well-known British authors.

 

2. Name of Dollhouse: “The Astolat Dollhouse”.
Price: $1.1 Million.
Descrption: “This Astolat Dollhouse Castle” was built by Colorado miniaturist Elaine Diehl, from 1974-1987. Having the luxury to commission artisans and miniaturists from all over the world, this house consists of over 100,000 handcrafted and high standard quality pieces. Diehl used a 1:1 scale – giving the impression of a realistic-sized interior with any photo taken. The Astolat is furnished with gold-framed mirrors, mosaic wood floors, a marble bathroom, gold chandeliers, original miniature oil paintings, miniature portraits, a library with miniature books, a wine cellar and a fireplace leading to a “wizard’s tower”, with telescopes and astrological signs. What adds to its value is the lighting system, which lightens up all areas of the Astolat and automatically adjusts depending on the time of day.”

 

 

3. Name of Dollhouse: “Stettheimer’s Dollhouse”.
Price: $1 Million.
Descrption: “Constructed by Carrie Walter Stettheimer between 1916 and 1935 in NYC, the youngest Stettheimer, over the course of 25 years. For this piece many contemporary artists made miniatures of their art, including Marcel Duchamp, George Bellows, Gaston Lachaise, and many others. They made tiny copies of their paintings and sculptures, including Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, and smaller nude sculptures by Marguerite Zorach and Alexander Archipenko. The dollhouse can be visited at the Museum of the City of New York. The furniture for those room boxes was created by craftsmen in the 1930s and 1940s. The 12 room dollhouse if now located at the Museum of the City of New York.”

 

 

 

4. Name of Dollhouse: “Chicago’s Fairy Castle”.
Price: $500,000.
Descrption: “Constructed by silent film actress Colleen Moore between 1928 and 1935, With twelve-room, “fairy-tale castle”. There is a drawing room, great hall, chapel, library, princess’ and prince’s bathroom and bedroom, attic and a magic garden. The miniature features a drawing room, great hall, chapel, library, princess’ and prince’s bathroom and bedroom, attic and a magic garden”

 

 

 

 

5. Name of Dollhouse: “Titania’s Palace”.
Price: $256,500.
Descrption: “Titania’s Palace is a miniature castle hand-built in Ireland. Bought by Legoland in Denmark in 1978. It started construction in 1907-1922. It was commissioned and designed by English painter and officer, Sir Nevile Wilkinson for his daughter Guendolen. The palace has 18 rooms and over 3,000 miniature works of art collected from all over the world. It can now be visited at Egeskov Castle in Denmark”.

 

 

 

 

6. Name of Dollhouse: “English Gothic House”.
Price: $82,000.
Descrption: “Peter Riches from Sussex, England was the one who create this amazing dollhouse, started this dollhouse in 1994. Inspired by a traditional English house and complete with all the regular fixtures of a bath, bedroom, dining room, hallway and living room, this dollhouse is one of a kind. Little details like the chandeliers and a library room with 1,000 separately bound books containing pages of newspapers make this dollhouse one of the most expensive. Having an old dollhouse lying around in your garage proves to be a good investment”.

 

 

 

 

7. Name of Dollhouse: “Japanese Dollhouse”.
Price: $80,000.
Descrption: “The famous heiress Huguette Clark, the daughter of William A. Clark who made his millions in copper, loved dollhouses, daughter of American industrialist and copper tycoon William A. Clark. It happened in the 1900s when she wanted to buy the Japanese-style dollhouse, but first she needed to gain permission from the Japanese government to use a special cedar reserved for the construction of imperial buildings.
She commissioned Japanese miniatures of houses, temples and tea shops. She had a special interest in Japan and its culture and employed famous Japanese artisans to ensure that the buildings would be historical and culturally correct.”

 

 

 

8. Name of Dollhouse: “The 16th Century Dollhouse”.
Price: $70,000.
Descrption: “This dollhouse was designed by husband and wife, Kevin Mulvany and Susie Rogers. They were trained historians from Wiltshire specialized in architectural miniatures. Their 25 years of experience made them famous for recreating historically significant and detailed European castles and mansions. They have traveled miles in order to visit the places they rebuild. This six-room dollhouse has been commissioned by a private Californian collector at a value of $70,000, in 2009. There are real 16th century cutlers in sterling silver, twenty-two carat, gold-plated decorative leaves along the moldings and skirting of the walls. Each room featured real crystal chandeliers valued at £1000 each, plus furniture made from luxury wood, miniature hand-painted Sevres porcelain dinnerware and a miniature antique statue of Italian sculptor Antonio Canova’s Three Grace Statue. The rooms are based upon various locations from the 16th century Versailles Palace, the Chateau de Bagatelle and the Palace of Fontainebleau. These are all connected to Marie Antoinette, the infamous female monarch executed during the French revolution in 1793.”

 

 

9. Name of Dollhouse: “Petronella Oortman’s Dollhouse”.
Price: $18,000.
Descrption: “

In 1686. The Rijksmuseum this dollhouse belonged to the wealthy Peronella Oortman of Amsterdam, the wife of wealthy merchant trader. The thing that makes this dollhouse special is that all the pieces used were made using the same materials as their counterparts. She ordered her miniature porcelain from China which proved to be a good investment. She had every item fit to scale and commissioned cabinetmakers, glassblowers, silversmiths, basket-weavers and artists to furnish her doll house to replicate her own. There are two beautiful ceiling paintings: one in the nursery room- by Dutch landscaper and painter, Nicolaes Piemont, and one in a marble-floored hallway, portraying Aurora, The Goddess of Dawn. In the kitchen, there are the most magnificent tableware and utensils. Oortman’s specially ordered dishes from China sit in a dresser against the wall. And last, but not least, within the kitchen floor is a ‘Hidden Cellar’, seen only when the drawer is removed. The amount of precision that went into the creation of the house and its unique artworks are what bring it such high value“

 

 

10. Name of Dollhouse: “Sara Rothe Dollhouse”.
Price: $12,000.
Descrption: “Sara Rothe was an 18th century art collector from the Northern Netherlands. She is famous for being the owner of two dollhouses. 18th century art collector and wife to a wealthy merchant. spent most of her time on decorating and showing her cabinet. Its cabinet doors are doubled- the first pair are of the cabinet and the second pair are decorated to represent the windows of the house. The dining room is stocked with knives, forks and plates, all in pure silver. The library is stacked with miniature-sized books, and on the walls of the house, hang actual miniature paintings done by real artists. This twelve-room dollhouse is on display at the Netherlands Frans Hals Museum in Harleem“