This wonderful old doll in her much aged embroidered white dress keeps making me think of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations--looking as if she's been waiting around forever for a wedding day that never arrived. How soulful she seems now, with a deep intensity to those black beaded eyes, held by thread against her knit stockingette face, white just around the eyes and toned brown nearly everywhere else. And with the woolen stump/knot-work embroidery on her dress having browned in the same way, almost as if licked by fire. This is the sort of doll I could never leave behind--completely animate seeming and Mona Lisa-esque with those eyes following one around the room! I know from the wonderful dealer I purchased her from that she is stuffed with cork, and I believe she was found in Virginia. C. late 19th century I believe.
Approx 11 1/4" tall measured head to hem and about 4" wide. Stable and not especially fragile. Losses as documented, including one of her arms, but it was constructed as a separate, attached appendage, so left no hole behind.
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