21" (53 cm.) Wooden shoulder head doll with simplistic carving of facial features, defined carved hair, blue glass eyes, whitened complexion with rouged cheeks and chin, hand-woven linen body with painted spots, wooden lower arms and legs with stub hands and feet, fine original costume comprising handmade undergarments and a warm quilted skirt. Condition: generally excellent, finish is original and worn to a pleasing patina. Comments: mid-19th century, the intriguing doll, from the collection of Estrid Faurholt was described in her Book of Dolls and Dollhouse as an early Danish doll with "a distressing, but amusing, condition. She has measles - at least this seems the most reasonable diagnosis of the little red spots all over her body. Presumably her young owner had measles and it seemed appropriate for her doll to have them, too" . The doll was later acquired, along with the entire Faurholt collection, by the Legoland Museum.