Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bisque shoulder-head doll
Measurements
400 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669804
Summary
A bisque shoulder-head doll which has moulded and painted facial features with open and shut blue glass eyes and an open mouth with four teeth visible. She has a short, blonde, mohair wig with a straight fringe. There is a number impressed in the back of her shoulders but most of it is covered by leather and it cannot be deciphered. Her body, upper arms and upper legs are of white kid leather, with painted composition forearms and hands and lower legs and feet. The leather and composition are quite dirty and some of the paint has worn off her fingers and toes. She is jointed at the elbows, hips and knees with metal pins, and at the shoulders with a length of white cord which is threaded through the body and joined to the top of each arm through a wooden ball. The leather has torn at the right shoulder allowing the wood to show through.