Bisque-headed doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Bisque-headed doll
Measurements
122 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658857
Summary
A bisque-headed doll's house size doll dressed as a maid (circa 1900). She has a moulded head and hair and has painted facial details. She has short brown painted hair. The surface of her hair and face has a slight shine to it. She has a stuffed fabric body and ceramic arms and legs, with her legs being ceramic to the knees them stuffed cotton above. Her left hand is missing. Her arms are a flesh colour and her legs are white and her feet are painted black to mimic shoes. She wears a brown, long sleeved, cotton, dress with white cuffs and white collar. Over the dress she wears a white lace apron with lace shoulder straps. She wears a white cotton band around her head.