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Description: | A rare Madame Montanari Poured Shoulder-Wax Doll, with finely painted mouth and cheek colouring, blue glass eyes with laid on eyelashes and red inner dots, fine brown hair inserted in crown. Cloth body with poured wax lower limbs, attached to main body using string. Signed 'Montanari' in ink on lower abdomen. Dressed in white cotton dress edged with blue ribbon, lace bonnet, also one underdress in white muslin and one short petticoat in white cotton. Housed in original wooden box, with remains of paper label which reads; 'THE PRIZE MEDAL OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851, Unanimously awarded to Madame Montanari by the jurors of class 29, for the unique and unrivalled pro...on of the MODEL MUSLIN DOLLS, for beauty of...' | Subjects: | Toys | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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