Composition-headed doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1978
Materials
Composition-headed doll, paper, nylon and lace
Measurements
442 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660937
Summary
A modern reproduction Victorian doll with a composition head with moulded and painted facial features (circa 1978). Her long auburn coloured hair is glued to the head. She has a headdress of white and blue flowers tied with a green bow. Her fabric stuffed body has a covering of wax on the lower arms and legs. She wears a green nylon long sleeved dress with embroidery on the yoke and skirt. A long white nylon petticoat with yellow ribbon threaded through lace at the hem. A short white nylon petticoat with an embroidered frill at the hem. Underneath she wears a pair of white nylon drawers with yellow ribbon and lace at the knees, long white socks and black shoes with black laces and white cardboard soles.