A fine pressed bisque fashionable doll
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 1… 顯示更多 THE TAFT-ALDEN DOLLS FROM PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND These two dolls (lot 48 and 49) are from the Taft-Alden family and were probably bought for Mary Elizabeth Taft, born 1858 and her sister. Mary Elizabeth was the daughter of Governor Royal Chapin Taft, a prominent citizen and businessman from Providence Rhode Island who became a republican after the dissolution of the Whig party. Mary Elizabeth married George Mathewson Smith, a great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of John Alden and Priscilla Mullen from the Mayflower. Both dolls were treasured and cared for by George and Mary Elizabeth's daughter Hope, a respected artist of Providence who was born in 1879 and died in 1965. They have remained in the original family until now. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b.1807 d.1882), wrote a poem 'The Courtship of Miles Stanish' in which John Aldin and Priscilla Mullen are mentioned.
A fine pressed bisque fashionable doll

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A fine pressed bisque fashionable doll
with rigid neck, unpierced ears, closed mouth, sleeping eye mechanism, pale brows and lashes, original blonde mohair wig with cork pate and kid over wood jointed body with bisque arms and legs --17½in. (45cm.) high (left thumb missing, eye mechanism possibly an addition), wearing boned stays edged in blue, rare hoop with train and front lifting band, matching petticoat with deep gathered hem flounce edged with lace, socks, pantalettes and elaborate cream, grey and green striped silk afternoon frock with full train, the jacket, skirt and belt decorated with black lace, green silk ribbons and white glass beads, with matching kid slippers; additional clothes comprise another striped silk day dress in grey and black, the jacket and full skirt decorated with black ribbons, lace, an elaborate braid and black and white glass beads; a similar shaped full length petticoat edged with lace; a white plush jacket simulating ermine with capelet decorated with a silk tassle and silk edged pockets, a lace cap, a red silk snood, an initialled handkerchief, a pair of kid gloves, two and a half pairs of stockings, a pair of mauve and blue silk slippers with gilt buckles and blue ribbon binding (heels missing); a pair of heeled lace-up boots (one heel missing), a pierced bone brisé fan simulating a Chinese feather fan, the scalloped green fabric 'feather' painted with blue and pink flowers; and a home-made fine pink and cream checked silk gauze evening dress, the jacket and skirt edged with turquoise silk ribbons with similar rosettes and lace edging (needs attention)


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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium