Glazed china-headed doll
Category
Dolls
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Glazed china-headed doll
Measurements
335 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666858
Summary
A glazed china-headed doll with painted facial features and black painted and moulded hair. She has a stuffed cloth body and upper arms, and untinted bisque lower arms and hands. Her legs and feet are missing. Two pieces of wire protrude from the base of the stuffed body. She is wearing a pale green satin dress with a rosebud pattern. There is cream lace on the central panel of the bodice, the shoulders and the cuffs. A length of green ribbon is tied around the high waist. The bottom edge of the dress is frayed.