Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
117 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665472
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting a lady with a fan. She has painted facial features and brown wool hair. The doll has flesh coloured stiffened jersey material hands and is wearing a mauve nylon dress with folded tiers and white lace trim at the bodice and cuffs. In her left hand, she holds a white lace fan and on her head is a silver coloured headdress.