Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bisque headed doll
Measurements
360 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658996
Summary
A bisque shoulder-head doll with kid leather body, arms and legs and wearing a white cotton petticoat. She has a bisque head and shoulders; the head swivels from side to side and backwards and forwards in a ball and socket joint. She has painted facial details and fixed blue glass eyes. She has a peice of cream coloured scrim on her head with only two sections of long blond artificial hair sticking out of it. She has a stuffed kid leather body, arms and legs with only her arms jointed at the shoulders. She wears a white cotton sleeveless petticoat which has a wide neck and has blue 'crude' embroidery around the neckline.