13à (33 cm.) Featuring a one piece carved head and torso with wasp waist, slightly heightened bosom, shaped hips; having painted gesso on wood face, upper torso, torso and legs from waist down, and lower arms and hands, the black painted eyes having two tiny eye dots, delicately painted upper lashes, narrow stroked brows, closed mouth with primly shaped lips, and a distinctively carved nose indicated by absent nose bridge. The doll has rouged cheeks and two prominent beauty spots in addition to eight tiny dots. Her original natural hair wig is sewn to a linen cap. Her limbs are somewhat crudely dowel-jointed at the hips, knees, shoulder and elbows, and her fingers are separately carved. The doll wears a silk and muslin gown that appears to be original and matching attached slippers and muslin cap. Condition: generally excellent, finish entirely original, small nose tip rub, two tiny paint flakes on right cheek. Comments: during the late 1600's a series of dolls with remarkably similar expressions and construction details were accomplished, likely by the same English craftsman on commission for British aristocracy; the series includes the famous Lord and Lady Clapham at the Victoria and Albert Museum and this doll, known as Lady Elton. The keynote doll from the Estrid Faurholt collection was featured on the cover of her 1967 Book of Dolls and Dollhouses. The Faurholt Collection was later acquired by the Legoland Museum and has been a feature doll in that museum for nearly half a century.