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Description
16" (41 cm.) One piece carved wooden head and torso, well-sculpted facial features with defined chin and cheek bones, elongated throat, painted pale complexion, two black upper glancing eyes painted with two tiny eye dots in each, painted single line brows with "dot" fringe, closed mouth with primly-set lips, rouged cheeks, pronounced beauty spots, remnants of hair wig sewn to linen cap, wasp-waist, linen upper arms, carved wooden lower arms with separately-carved fingers, wooden legs with dowel-jointing at hips and knees. Condition: original finish with some light nose scuffing, limbs rubbed. Comments: English, late 1600s. A series of dolls with remarkably similar expressions and construction and decorative details were accomplished, likely by the same English craftsman, and likely on commission for British aristocracy. Other dolls from this series include Lord and Lady Clapham at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Lady Elton from the Estrid Faurholt book (featured on the cover of her 1967 Book of Dolls and Dollhouses, and later featured in the Legoland Museum of Antique Dolls). Value Points: an extremely rare find, the remarkable doll has original finish, and is wearing elements of her original costume including soutache embroidered petticoat with coin pocket, tacked-on socks and silk twill slippers.