A rare china shoulder-headed doll modelled as a child

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Great Aunt Alice's Doll

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A rare china shoulder-headed doll modelled as a child
with moulded and painted short dark brown hair with tendrils falling round the face, flesh tone, blue painted eyes with white highlights, open mouth with moulded tongue, kid body with stitched joints and flesh toned adult arms in original white-work baby robe, pantalettes, buff caped cloak, brown silk bonnet, extra clothes include two coloured cotton print frocks, underclothes, nightgown, patchwork quilt and coral necklace, housed in a leather over wood doll's trunk from W. Chapple Junior - 14 High Holborn, doll possibly Berlin circa 1840 --the doll 19½in. (50cm.) high; a Nuremberg newspaper dated 12th December 1849 is also in her trunk

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Lot Essay

Alice Crawshaw was never married. Her family were yeomen farmers. Her father was a schoolmaster, who studied in Hiedelburg and her brother, Lionel and his wife, became professional painters who live in Whitby. The doll was inherited from Alice when the present owner was four but it would seem probable that it is from an earlier generation.

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