Artist/Maker
Kestner Company
Title
Doll
DateCirca 1906
Mediumleather, hair
Dimensions19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm)
Object number1970.2.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA bisque and kid lady doll with a painted bisque head and lower arms with sleeping blue glass eyes, upper eyelashes of hair, and painted lower lashes. The doll has a stuffed white kid body with rivet joints at shoulder, elbow, thigh, and knees. The hair is in the ''Gibson style'' with the head tilted up.ProvenanceGiven to Mrs. Waldemar Fries on Christmas 1907. Her aunt, Mrs. William A. Mackie, had the doll's clothes made by Sarah F. Fuller of Fairhaven.On View
Not on view
Circa 1840
circa 1860
ca. 1950
