Fortune teller doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1845
Materials
Peg wooden doll
Measurements
60 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659727
Summary
A Grodnertal peg-wooden 'fortune teller' doll, with moulded and painted facial features and black painted hair. She has a wooden body. Her arms are wooden with painted hands. Her left arm is jointed. Her legs are wooden, jointed and have feet painted red, white and black. She is wearing a bodice of blue-grey silk with lace decoration, long beige cotton puffed sleeves with a lace frill at the top. Her skirt is formed by a large number of folded pieces of paper threaded together and fastened around her waist and knees. The papers unfold to reveal fortunes handwritten in ink. She also wears drawers made of very dirty white cotton fabric.