22nd Feb, 2024 12:00

The Important Private Antique Doll Collection of Austin Smith and Margaret Harkin - Part 1

 
Lot 12
 

12

A very rare early English papier-mache shoulder head doll probably by a wooden doll maker circa 1780

Sold for £2,600
Estimated at £3,000 - £4,000


 
A very rare early English papier-mache shoulder head doll probably by a wooden doll maker circa 1780, with inset dark enamel eyes, dotted eyelashes and brows in the English wooden doll style, painted mouth and nostrils, rouged cheeks, blonde hair wig with one long ringlet, stuffed rigid body with pink kid gloved hands, Spitialfield silk brocade sack back gown, net ruffled collar and cuffs, pink silk stomacher and cuffs, paper petticoat and red leather shoes —14in. (35.5cm.) high (rubbed tip of nose, silk perishing in places) - a similar earlier doll was sold in the Bodmer collection

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