Bisque shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bisque-headed doll
Measurements
305 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669811
Summary
A doll with a bisque shoulder-head and kid body and limbs, in a sitting position. She has a detachable blonde wig and blue-grey glass eyes, and moulded and painted facial features. She wears a black velvet dress, brown on the inside, criss-crossed by bands of woven metal thread, probably brass, now discoloured. Her short sleeves have lace cuffs. Under the dress she wears a white lace-edged cotton petticoat over another petticoat in a glazed white fabric. Her shoes are black leather with metal buckles and real shoelaces. On each forearm there is a metal spike.