Bisque doll
Margaret Glover
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1995
Materials
Bisque doll
Measurements
Each doll - 80 mm (height), Photogragh - 152 mm (width); 103 mm (height)
Place of origin
Hartham Road, 42
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666316
Summary
On display - Five identical bisque 'pupil' dolls, made by Margaret Glover in 1995 to replace a set of original period bisque dolls (inside model schoolroom - recorded separately as inventory number - 659941). There was also an original period teacher doll, however a replica was never made for this doll. Each with painted facial features and brown/auburn mohair hair. The have bisque bodies, arms, hands, legs and feet. They have painted black bisque shoes. Each doll is dressed in a black fabric dress tied at the waist with a pink ribbon. Each has a large cream lace ruff at the neck. Wound around the top of each leg is some man-made wadding fibre. In storage - There is a colour photograph of the five dolls, on the back of which is written 'Comes a train of little ladies, From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is, Wondering what the world can be, Five little maids who all unwary, come from a ladies' seminary, Freed from its genius tutelary - Five little maids from school (But shortly to be returned to their desks in the schoolroom under the eagle eye of its genius at Sudbury Hall.)'. Total number of items is 6.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the reverse of the photograph: 'MARGARET GLOVER/ 42 HARTHAM ROAD/ ISLEWORTH, M.DDT./ TW7 5ES/ Tel (01) 5684662' On the label on the lid of the box: 'Cadbury Museum/ 5 modern Margaret Glover/ doll's house dolls'
Makers and roles
Margaret Glover, maker