A Dutch doll house

Join Courtney Harris, assistant curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for a tour of a doll’s house modeled after a 17th-century Dutch home. Traditionally created and cared for by women, a Dutch doll’s house featured a combination of objects made domestically, like silver miniatures, and imported goods like porcelain, reflecting Dutch society at the time on a small scale.

Title Doll’s house
Artist(s) Unrecorded artist
Dates 17th century
Places Europe / Northern Europe / The Netherlands
Period, Culture, Style Baroque / Dutch Baroque
Artwork Type Furniture
Material Wood, Silver, Porcelain
Technique

Cite this page as: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "A Dutch doll house," in Smarthistory, June 7, 2022, accessed April 20, 2025, https://smarthistory.org/dutch-doll-house/.