Fortune teller doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1845 - 1847
Materials
Wooden doll, paper, textiles
Measurements
140 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659726
Summary
A fortune-teller doll with wooden head. Moulded and painted facial features, black moulded and painted hair. Wooden body and bent arms. No legs or feet. Wearing a purple-maroon, long sleeved, satin blouse with dirty cream satin ribbon on bodice with bows on the shoulders. A hole in the left elbow of the sleeve reveals an elbow joint. Her skirt is made up of folded pieces of coloured paper with scalloped edges, threaded together and joined at the waist. They unfold to reveal fortunes handwritten in ink.