Sold for:
$6,765
$6,765
Martha Wellington Cloth Baby Doll, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1880s, all stockinet, needle-sculpted features, oil-painted head and lower limbs, eyes with molded upper lid, overbite, dimple under lip, shapely ears, short light brown hair, cupped hands with delineated fingers, two distinctive bottom buns, dressed in baby clothes, lg. 23 1/2 in. Provenance: From the collection of Ruth C. Burger. Finish shows soil and crackling, some paint loss, tip of nose worn through, bare spot above lip in philtrum.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-10-10
