Wax shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Wax shoulder-head doll, glass, textiles
Measurements
360 mm (height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659730
Summary
A wax shoulder-headed doll with inset blue glass eyes and blonde mohair hair. Stuffed cloth body, wax arms, hands, lower legs and feet. Wearing a dirty cream muslin dress trimmed with cream lace at the neck, cuffs, skirt and hem. She wears a blue ribbon sash tied in a bow at the back and a blue ribbon around her waist which fastens with a white fabric covered button. Cream cotton petticoat with an embroidered scalloped hem, a plain cream cotton inner petticoat, white cotton drawers trimmed with a ruffle, cream knitted woolen socks and red woolen knitted shoes which are all in one with the socks. There is a length of blue ribbon as wide as the sash lying loose in the box. Total number of items is two