Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Bisque shoulder-head doll, textiles
Measurements
445 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659619
Summary
A bisque shoulder-head doll with painted facial features and blonde moulded and painted hair. Stuffed cloth body, upper arms and upper legs. Bisque lower arms, hands, lower legs and feet. Wearing a cotton dress with a pink and black sprig pattern, Cream lace collar and cuffs. A red silk brocade ribbon is tied in a bow at the back of the waist. Cream cotton petticoat with pin tucks, red wool petticoat, cream cotton drawers with pin tucks. The feet are painted black to imitate heeled boots. String of brown-gold coloured bead necklace.