Doll
- Object Name:
- Doll
- Object ID:
- 1947.010.04 a
- Place of Origin:
- Germany (probably)
- Date:
- 1857
- Description:
- Doll, "Frozen Charlotte" type. Porcelain. Stationary arms, legs and head. Painted features and hair. Hair black, eyes blue with fine pencil line in red over eyes. China has pinkish glaze. Doll made with a hole between buttocks. Dressed in low-cut brown dress with white sleeves trimmed with red braid; cape tied at neck. Bonnet fashioned of black and white laces with rosebud in center front. Doll has large wardrobe of clothes (also catalogued) and a hat box.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Textile - Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-1.5 D-0.75 inches
- Provenance:
- From accession record: "Doll, Letitia Lizzie ('Titia Lizzie'), owned by my dear mother, Mrs. Levietta Bartlett Connor of Cincinnati, Ohio. She received the gift of the doll in 1857, at Kingston, NH, in her old home, once Josiah Bartlett's."
"Frozen Charlotte" dolls were named for the unfortunate character made legendary in the ballad "Fair Charlotte," sung by William Lorenzo Carter. Charlotte's skin turned porcelain white as she froze to death during a long sleigh ride with her beau. These dolls were sometimes used as cake decoration. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Edna Bartlett Conner Watt, In Memory of Levietta Bartlett Conner
- Subjects:
- Dolls
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