Untinted bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Untinted bisque shoulder-head doll
Measurements
135 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659843
Summary
An untinted bisque doll's house size doll. It's shoulders, head, arms and lower legs are untinted bisque, the body and upper legs are stuffed pink cotton. It has moulded and painted facial features and fair mohair hair styled in a long plait at the back. Wearing a pale pink silk (now crumbling) dress which has cream lace at the neckline and hem and yellow organza puffed sleeves and sash. The sash, around the waist, has two long ends on the left, each finishing in two sets of four tiny beads. Underneath she wears a cream cotton petticoat edged with cream lace, and cream cotton pantaloons edged with cream lace. Her moulded heeled boots are painted black.