Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
113 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665470
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting a flower seller. The doll has painted facial features and brown wool hair. She has flesh coloured stiffened jersey material hands and is wearing a red wool skirt, striped fabric apron, green wool shawl, and a blue felt bonnet lined with white lace. She is wearing a white ribbon bow at her neck and in her left hand she carries a woven basket containing artificial flowers.