Casgliadau Arlein

China headed costume doll c1850

China head with painted black hair and features. Bisque forearms and lower legs on stuffed cloth body. Wearing a faded lilac silk dress, long sleeved, over a hooped underskirt, a cotton, lace trimmed underskirt and lace trimmed drawers. On her head the white straw poke bonnet is tied round with lilac silk ribbon and has pink and lilac roses tucked under the brim.