Peg wooden doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll and fabric
Measurements
168 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660922
Summary
A Dutch or peg wooden doll. She has a wooden head painted flesh coloured with painted facial details. She has painted black hair drawn back from the face. The body is wood. She has crude wooden arms, jointed at the shoulders that move in unison. She has crude wooden legs, jointed at the hips and moving independently. She is wearing a blue dress of knitted nylon fabric trimmed with blue lace, with a yellow ribbon sash at the waist. She has an underskirt of white knitted fabric.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs F. R. Gatty in June 1976.