Bisque-headed doll
Bru
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1875
Materials
Bisque and kid leather
Measurements
400 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657395
Summary
A bisque-headed doll with stuffed cloth body, kid gloved hands and black leather shoes on her feet. Moulded painted facial features and glass eyes and fair mohair hair in ringlets. There are no marks visible on the back of the head. Wearing a faded beige and blue layered long sleeved dress with a beige braid trim on the bodice, extending in a V-shape from the shoulders to front waist. Blue trim at the waist. The two layers of the dress have a beige braid and lace trim and a bustle at the rear. The dress is mounted on buckram and there is a buckram petticoat and cotton drawers. On her head is a beige fabric hat with a blue ribbon trim and a white feather. Around her neck is a metal necklace and in her left ear is a blue bead and wire earing. Her right ear is broken.
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in January 1994.
Makers and roles
Bru , manufacturer