English 17th Century Wooden Doll with Commanding Presence

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20" (51 cm.) Wooden doll with one-piece oval-shaped rounded head slightly flattened at crown, elongated throat, tiny waist and flared hips, mortise and tenon jointed wooden legs, cloth upper arms, wooden lower arms with large hands having separately carved splayed fingers, creamy gesso complexion with cheek blush spots, refined shape of nose with pointing tip, painted large brown eyes with two white eye dots in each eye, brown upper eyeliner, one-stroke arched brows, painted beauty spot, closed mouth with firm expression, tacked-on linen wig cap with remnants of original wig. Condition: generally excellent, wig sparse, some paint rubs on upper forehead and right cheek, lower legs not original, lower arms may not be original. Comments: English, circa 1690. Value Points: rare early wooden lady with commanding presence, wearing original gown of rose silk with beautifully-formed sleeves edged with flared flounces, linen stomacher with silver wire vertical boning, blue silk petticoat, small bonnet tacked on back of head and decorated with green silk bows. The doll is featured in the book, The Heart of the Tree, by Rosalie Whyel and Jill Gorman, pp. 113.