Doll

Object Name:

Doll

Object ID:

1971.011

Description:

Doll, woman. China head. Molded, porcelain head. Black-painted hair. Molded curls on forehead and small curls across back of head. Part and depression on center of forehead leading to back. Edges of curls on forehead and side of head, delineated by paint. Molded ears with slight detail. Good molded details in face. Black-painted eyebrows. Reddish line where fold in eyelid. Black line for upper eyelashes. Blue eyes, with black pupils. Pink lacrimal caruncle in corners of eyes. Painted nostrils. Painted lips. Subtle rouge on cheeks. Thick neck. Thoracic section extends down from sternal area in front and back. Extends upwards to tops of shoulders above arms. Slight downturn over shoulders. Two holes for attaching body to lower section of doll on back. Two holes on front for attachment of body. Body firm with slight waist. White pantaloons with 0.6" hem and scalloped embroidery bottom edge. About four scallops to one inch. Hem finely-sewn around top edge, also, folded under. Inseam also folded under and finely-sewn. Pantaloons end ~3" from floor level and extend upward to band where gathered and sewn. Seam from waist downward to groin area with white, glass button holding it together at waist. Body cloth-covered white material on upper body, arms and legs. Legs articulated at bottom of body where thin section acts as hinge. Fairly-full slip extending ~3.5" from floor level. Hem 2" wide, finely-sewn on folded top edge that sewn. 1.7" wide band on bottom of scalloped edge, lace-like decoration. Repetitive decoration of some open diamonds. Repeat ~1.5" horizontally. Two scallops along bottom edge per repeat of pattern. Dress gathered at waist and sewn to band. Back held in place by safety pin. Fine, white dress on top of this extending to floor level. Bottom of dress hem ~4" wide, with finely-sewn with turned-over edge. Dress gathers to waist. Six narrow, vertical pleats on waist to simple, banded collar around neck. Pleats ~0.5" apart and ~1" high. Sleeves ~3.8" high, full-length and tapered to width ~2.8". Extend slightly beyond ends of hands. Two sewn pleats around cuff. Band of lace 0.4" wide around end of cuffs. Sleeves gathered at shoulder. Seam across top of shoulder of sleeve to collar. Slit in back of dress from collar down to waist ~6.5". 0.8" wide satin band around waist with bow on front, coral pink color. Arms articulated at shoulder and extend downward to porcelain arm starting above elbow. Molded white porcelain to sculpted fingers and thumb. Mold marks on outside of arm. Articulated legs joined to porcelain legs and feet. Junction about knee level. Knitted white and blue knee-length socks. Some deterioration in them. For some reason, right leg has cloth that appears to be over porcelain over stocking. Left shows porcelain under stocking where it is deteriorated. Deteriorated, black, leather shoes. Yellow sole on bottom of left shoe with #3 stamped under toes. Right shoe lost its sole. Both shoes slightly torn, but right one worst of the two. Some brown strings tied around ankles at shoe tops.

Material:

Ceramic
Textile
Leather
Glass
Satin
Porcelain

Dimensions:

H-22.5 W-10.5 D-3.8 inches

Credit Line:

Bequest of Arline L. Welch