Historical doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic doll
Measurements
310 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658994
Summary
A plastic doll in a Tudor costume, representing Anne Boleyn. She has a plastic head with moulded features. The facial features are painted, and she has brown fine hair made of possibly nylon. The body is plastic, as are the arms and legs. The arms are jointed at the shoulders and legs are jointed at the hips. She has a white cap with a lace trim framing the face. From this cap comes a long white veil that falls to the back of the doll. She is wearing a black velvet dress with a slash to the waist at the front of the skirt revealing an underskirt. The dress is elaborately decorated with silver braid, pearls, lace at cuffs and neck, pearls and diamonds at the waist and a pearl and diamond rope hanging from the waist band. There is a cross hanging on the front of the bodice. The underskirt is made of sparkling silver and white material, and is supported by stiff white buckram. She is wearing white knickers and white high healed plastic mules. She has a diamond on her right hand.