Wax shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Wax shoulder-head doll, leather, textiles
Measurements
750 mm (height)
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659710
Summary
A wax headed doll with moulded and painted features. She has blue fixed glass eyes and long brown hair in ringlets. She has small drop earings. The head is moulded in with the shoulders which are attached to a fabric stuffed body. The top of the arms are stuffed fabric and jointed to the body. The forearm is kid and the hands have separate digits. The legs are stuffed fabric and jointed at the hip. She is wearing a brown silk bolero jacket lined with pink silk and trimmed with braid. Beneath this is a cream voile dress with a bodice trimmed with braid and lace, three quarter sleeves trimmed at the end and a gathered skirt trimmed just above the hem. Beneath this is a plain cotton petticoat, then a flannel one, then another cotton one. She is wearing pantaloons trimmed at the ankle. She has black leather shoes tied on with ribbon. Attached to her right hand is a handkerchief and to her left arm a cross stitch embroidered bag.