EARLY 20TH C VINT HAND PAINTED PAPER MACHE DOLL, W/LINEN BONNET/DRESS/TIE SHOES

Description

EARLY 20TH CENTURY
AME
RI
CAN
ANTIQUE HAND
PAINTED, PAPER MACHE,
BLUE EYED
DOLL
W/AUBURN HAIR, LINEN BONNET,
DRESS & LACED SHOES
(Circa 1900-1920)
Vintage handmade American dolls
DIMENSIONS:
13" Height x 6" (widest point/arm span) x 2 ½" Depth
DESCRIPTION:
Offered is this really wonderful early 20th century, most likely American, hand painted, paper mache (papier-mache) young female doll, with painted face and limbs, clothed with a fine linen bonnet hat, a linen dress and soft, tied linen booties, decorated with hand painted blue eyes, crimson red lips and blushed rose cheeks. The enamel paint is now crazed and crackled and the fine linen dress is now slightly soiled and discolored. The hand painted eyes though are wrought with surprising emotion and with real delicacy, giving the doll a hesitant, shy expression and one of possibly bewilderment and quiet curiosity toward all the manifestations of the newly realized life and all of its many splendors in front of her. The body is without any material loss, aside from some episodes of flaking paint. The doll looks to have been perhaps exposed to the heat of an attic or barn loft, as the paint film covering the paper mache doll's form and limbs is moderately crazed and crackled. Amazing.
CONDITION:
Good to Very Good overall vintage condition.