Jumeau

Jumeau doll
Jumeau advertising from 1885

Jumeau was a French company, founded in the early 1840s, which designed and manufactured high quality bisque dolls.

It was founded by Louis-Desire Belton and Pierre-François Jumeau in the Maison Jumeau of Montreuil-sous-Bois, near Paris, France. While Belton did not remain with the company for long, under Jumeau's leadership (and later, under the leadership of his son, Emile), the company soon gained a reputation for dolls with beautiful faces and "exquisite" clothing which replicated the popular fashions of the time.[1] The dolls are still popular with collectors today, and have sold for over £2,000 at auction.[2]

  1. ^ Hoban (2008), p. 12.
  2. ^ "Rare French Doll Sells for Amazing Pounds 2,250" (2005).