Untinted bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1865
Materials
Bisque shoulder-head doll, cotton
Measurements
401 mm (height of doll)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659620
Summary
An untinted bisque shoulder-head doll dressed in a white cotton dress. She has yellow moulded hair and moulded and painted facial details all of which have a satin glaze finish. Her face and shoulders are white and her features are very delicately painted. Impressed into the back of her shoulders is a mark reading '16B'. She has a stuffed (sawdust) body and parian lower arms and legs. Her left leg from the knee down is missing. She wears a white cotton dress which has three quatre length sleeves trimmed with lace, a wide neckline decorated with lace. The skirt is very long and has rows of pin tuck decoration at the bottom. She wears a shorter white cotton petticoat.