Wax shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Wax shoulder-head doll, textiles
Measurements
235 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659711
Summary
A wax-headed doll with moulded and painted facial features and a short pink mohair wig. She has a stuffed cloth body. The upper arms and upper legs are stuffed cloth, the lower arms and lower legs are made of wax. The right lower leg is cracked at the top. She is wearing a fine white cotton dress embroidered on the skirt with a design in pink, a stiff cotton petticoat, a shorter cotton petticoat and drawers made of a very fine fabric which are sewn in at the join between the legs and the body.