Modelling material
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Modelling material, paper and crepe de chine
Measurements
Beige doll with stick - 130 mm (height), Red doll - 65 mm (height), Clothed doll - 65 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670484
Summary
Three very small Chinese dolls formed from modelling material. All have painted faces with moulded and painted facial features. The first wears a beige hat and cloak with a green tie cord and black collar, all modelled from the same beige material and painted where necessary. He is mounted on a vertical stick. His left hand, with its cuff, is broken off, and there is another very small broken piece, probably from the same area. The second is made in the same way, but from a red material. He wears an ornamental beige hat with green horns and a red cloak with green and white trimmings. He is mounted on a stick like the first, but it is broken off behind his feet, and most of it is missing. The third has head, arms and legs moulded from a similar material, but white. The body appears to be of painted paper. His head is painted pale blue, with tufts of dark brown artificial hair at each side and a topknot of the same hair. He wears a cloak of red and orange crepe de chine, with a tie-belt of the same material in red, and a pink satin lining. Total number of items is 5.
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in January 1994.