Bisque-headed doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Bisque-headed doll
Measurements
380 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659016
Summary
Bisque-headed doll with white kid leather body, arms, hands, legs and feet. The arms are hinged at the shoulders and elbows and the legs at the hips and knees. Painted facial features, blue glass eyes and pierced ears, but no earrings. Blonde mohair hair sewn onto canvas glued to crown of head. Wearing a faded blue fabric short sleeved dress, with a pleated panel at the bottom edge. White fabric apron which fastens at the back with a pair of ties. White cotton petticoat, cream wool petticoat (darned), and white cotton drawers edged with broderie anglaise. Her fingers appear to be made of tightly rolled paper which is in turn covered with kid and sewn. The kid is now coming away to reveal the rolled paper fingers.
Marks and inscriptions
On the back of the doll: '6'