Wax shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wax shoulder-head doll
Measurements
390 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668423
Summary
A female wax headed doll with shoulder length real brown hair decorated with two blue ribbons. She has inset blue glass eyes and moulded and painted facial features. Her body is made of stuffed white calico, jointed at the shoulders and the waist. Her arms and legs are composition, with moulded fingers. Her feet have painted black shoes and white and red socks. She is wearing a knitted woollen green-blue dress with long sleeves and a scallop-edged hem. Around her shoulders is a matching waist length cloak in the same colours that ties around her neck with white wool ties ending in white pom poms. Under her skirt, she has long cream knitted pantaloons which fasten at the waist with a white wool tie. On her head she has a green-blue knitted hat decorated with a white woollen hatband with frills at the front.