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Description: | wax head and shoulders, blue glass fixed eyes, blond human hair wig, stuffed cotton body and upper limbs, plaster lower limbs; wearing a white silk and chiffon evening dress, pink velvet sash and white cotton underwear; probably French, poured pink wax head and shoulders, moulded with face and ears; inset glass eyes with blue irises, painted mouth, eyebrows and eyelashes; blonde mohair wig dressed in cottage loaf style, curls around the face, high plaited centre wound at base with scarf of white chiffon; stuffed white cotton body and upper limbs; lower limbs cast in plaster, the legs with apricot coloured button boots, white ribbed stockings and red garters below the knee
dressed in: 2. combinations of white cotton trimmed with Leavers Valenciennes trim
3. petticoat of white cotton with deep border of Leavers Valenciennes lace (pattern of curved stem with bell flower above curved leafy stem forming scalloped edge) laid on above hem
4. evening dress of white satin; pleated and gathered bodice trimmed with ruffle of white chiffon around the low neck; loops of chiffon forming sleeves; pearl pin at centre front; gathered satin skirt with overskirt of chiffon, ruffles at and above hem; hem wired; pink velvet ribbon sash with one tail at back
5. white kid gloves (one for right arm missing)
condition: face and limbs dirty; chiffon ragged at back neck around back waist and at hem,
Accession number: NCM 1964-280 | Subjects: | dolls | Temporal: | 1906-1908 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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