Antique bisque doll dressed as a Red Cross nurse
c. 1920Hollow bisque kewpie-style doll with jointed arms dressed as a Red Cross nurse. She has moulded hair in a flapper style, perhaps dating her to the 1920s.
She is mostly natural white in colour, but has painted features, including eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, lips and shoes.
She is wearing a sleeveless pinafore dress with two pockets on the front, made from a coarse weaved fabric. She has a short-sleeved open jacket over the top of her dress made from a finer weaved fabric of slightly contrasting colour. She has a nursing cap made from the same combination of coarse and fine weaved materials - the band on the cap being in the finer weave and having a red cross stitched to the front.
It is difficult to know what colours the fabrics were originally as they appear to have faded or aged over time.
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