Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bisque shoulder-head doll
Measurements
440 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668433
Summary
A bisque shoulder-head doll with open-and-shut blue glass eyes, painted facial features and an open mouth with four teeth visible. Her hair is blonde mohair, with a straight fringe and plaited at the back. Her body and upper legs are made of tightly-stuffed kid. The neck edge of the kid on the body is cut in a decorative scalloped pattern. Her upper arms are also made of kid but over an unidentified rigid material, and her lower arms and legs are made of composition. She is jointed at the shoulders with wire or cord through her body, and at the elbows, knees and upper legs with metal pivots, which end in metal buttons on the skin side of the joint. The buttons at the knees are rusty. Most of her body is quite dirty, most of the toes on her right foot are missing, and she has a hole in the sole of her left foot. She is wearing a bonnet crocheted in pink nylon yarn with a cream edging. Under this, tied in a bow around her neck, is a pink ribbon with a picot edge.