Untinted bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1875
Materials
Untinted bisque shoulder-head doll, textiles
Measurements
370 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659622
Summary
An untinted bisque-headed doll with painted facial features and blonde moulded and painted hair. Stuffed cloth body, red kid leather arms, no hands. Stuffed cloth legs and feet. Wearing a blue/ gold coloured shot silk jacket with a scalloped edge and cream lace trim to neckline. Blue fabric dress with holes on the left hip area. Cream stiff muslin petticoat with blue embroidery thread trim at hem, 2 dirty white cotton petticoats, a red wool petticoat with a zig-zag edge, and cream cotton drawers. Red leather shoes with pink ribbon rosettes and brown leather soles. Wearing a pink and maroon painted bisque cap tied in a moulded pink painted bow under the chin.