Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1890
Materials
Bisque shoulder-headed doll , leather, textiles
Measurements
580 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659645
Summary
A bisque shoulded-headed doll with moulded and painted facial features blue inser glass eyes, open mouth with teeth and pierced ears. Fair mohair hair, stuffed kid leather body, legs and upper arms, bisque lower arms. Wearing deep red velvet dress with back opening and sleeves and neck edged with deep beige lace. Velvet cape with collar and tied with red ribbon. A white petticoat with six pintucks and lace at the hemline. A pink brush cotton half petticoat with white feather stitching at hem and on one pintuck. White cotton vest. White cotton drawers with pintucks, draw string at waist and edged at bottom with lace and feather stitching.