MID-18TH CENTURY GESSO OVER WOOD DOLL,

MID-18TH CENTURY GESSO OVER WOOD DOLL, (image 1/3)
MID-18TH CENTURY GESSO OVER WOOD DOLL, (image 2/3)
MID-18TH CENTURY GESSO OVER WOOD DOLL, (image 3/3)
Pricing & History
with turned wooden head/torso, gesso-covered head/neck, polychrome painted with inset blown glass almond-shaped eyes, rouged cheeks, black painted hair, black dotted eye brows and outlining of eyes, red-painted closed mouth. The remaining torso is in original white painted finish. The arms are cloth with carved wood lower half and the legs are jointed at the hips and knee and wood pegged. She wears what appears to be a period silk bonnet and white muslin dress with white cotton undergarments, 13.5" tall. Doll has an inked tag with inscription Aunt Peggies [sic] Doll 1759. The Quackenbush family were early Dutch colonists in New Holland, later renamed New York. Peggy's husband, Nicholas, was a Colonel and Adjutant General for the state of New York in the American Revolution, and a wealthy Albany merchant.Condition: Some gesso loss on face and chip on nose, right wood lower arm is missing and hand on left missing most fingers, still VG-.
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