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Details
An unusual painted wooden doll
with orange rouged cheeks, black painted eyes and brows, original plaited hair wig, the plaits looped around the head and tied with artificial paper flowers and leaves on the crown, the jointed wooden body with flat carved arms, the legs painted from above the jointed knees, wearing later pink silk bonnet, matching neckerchief and contemporary woven muslin high-waisted gown with train, trimmed with green ribbon, pink silk petticoat, linen shift and linen stockings with embroidered clocks tied with matching green ribbon -- 12in. (30cm.) high, circa 1760, the clothes 1800
See Colour Plate 13
with orange rouged cheeks, black painted eyes and brows, original plaited hair wig, the plaits looped around the head and tied with artificial paper flowers and leaves on the crown, the jointed wooden body with flat carved arms, the legs painted from above the jointed knees, wearing later pink silk bonnet, matching neckerchief and contemporary woven muslin high-waisted gown with train, trimmed with green ribbon, pink silk petticoat, linen shift and linen stockings with embroidered clocks tied with matching green ribbon -- 12in. (30cm.) high, circa 1760, the clothes 1800
See Colour Plate 13
Provenance
This little doll is reputed to have been the property of Princess Sofia Albertina of Sweden, 1753-1829, who had it redressed before passing it on to her great niece Princess Sofia Wilhelmina. When the Royal Family left Sweden with their father King Gustav IV Adolf in 1809, the doll was given to the princess's playmates, Ulrika Berg and her sister, daughters of the First Chief of Household Accounts at Haga Palace. Princess Sofia Albertina became a nun in 1787 and was head of a Monastery, of the order Quijlingburg.
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