English 18th Century Wooden Doll with Fine Original Costume

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20" (51 cm.) Carved wooden one-piece head and torso with shapely bosom, tiny waist, strong elongated throat and distinctive rounded chin tip and pronounced nose, black enamel eyes, heavy eyelids, single stroke brows with dot highlights, painted all around lashes, blush spots on cheeks, defined ears, tacked-on brunette human hair, cloth upper arms, wooden lower arms with spatula-shaped hands wrapped in fingerless gloves, wooden legs with mortise and tenon jointing at hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent, wig is very sparse. Comments: English, circa 1735. Value Points: having distinctive carving of chin and nose, the early glass-eyed lady is wearing original costume comprising fully-lined bronze green silk gown with upturned ruffled sleeves revealing white cotton sleevelets below, yellow quilted petticoat, two additional petticoats, stockings, silk laced shoes, very dainty muslin embroidered apron and lace cap, and with silk pocket. The doll is featured in the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Hedrick and Susan Hedrick, page 5.