#147

American Cloth Folk Doll with Oil-Painted Features,Trousseau,and Provenance
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$850
sold
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Description
32" (81 cm.) All-cloth doll with oil-painted facial features,complexion and hair,stitch-jointed muslin body. Thedoll is wearing an early cotton dress,undergarments,leather shoes,and sun bonnet. Condition: fair condition,unrestored and well-loved with fading and small tears. Comments: American,late19th century. ValuePoints: included with thedoll is a hand-woven wicker basket with a largeassortment of costumes including fiveadditional well-worn dresses,pinafore,undergarments,threepairs of leather ankleshoes,along with a noteregarding thehistory of thedoll,including theerroneous suggestion that thedoll dated to 1830.