Splendid 18th Century English Wooden Doll with Especially Shapely Legs

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27" (69 cm.) One-piece carved wooden head and torso with high domed forehead, very strong throat, black enamel eyes in large eye sockets, tiny dot lashes encircle the eye cuts, dot-shaped brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with primly set lips, blush spots on cheeks, shapely bosom, flat back, mortise and tenon jointing at hips and knees, cloth upper arms, spatula shaped wooden hands with separate thumbs, shapely lower legs with unusual defined muscles in calves and ankles, tacked-on brunette human hair wig. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: English, mid-1700s. Value Points: fine presence, with unusual carving of legs, wearing fine two-piece dress with boned bodice of cream silk satin with woven stripes and embroidered flowers, petticoat with patterned border, two "pockets" hidden under the gown, lace collar and muslin embroidered bonnet with double ruffle. The doll is featured in the book, The Heart of the Tree, by Rosalie Whyel and Jill Gorman, pp. 36 and 37.