Wax shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
1840 - 1849
Materials
Wax shoulder-head doll
Measurements
380 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659602
Summary
A German wax over composition doll with a badly cracked face. She has inset black glass eyes and a moulded red, blue, black and white wax hat. Her stuffed cloth body has a squeaker (according to the label on the box). Her wooden lower arms, hands, lower legs are painted, and her feet are painted black to imitate boots. She is wearing brown velvet breeches, a waistcoat with black bead buttons and a jacket with a cream paper collar.