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Catalog Number |
E91.0.53 |
Object Name |
Doll |
Date |
20th Century |
Description |
Gables Doll, 20th Century A hand-painted and carved wooden jointed unclothed peg doll. The oval head has applied side curls. The hair is black, the eyes are blue and the lips are red. The legs and arms have mortise and tenon joints with tiny wooden pegs for articulation. The white painted hands are whittled points. The whittled shaped feet are painted red and white. From around 1920 to the 1980s, the Gables Gift Shop commissioned and sold reproduction peg-jointed dolls with period clothes made by Gables staff and volunteers. |
Dimensions |
W-5.4 L-23.2 cm |
Place of Origin |
Salem or Marblehead |
Material |
wood, paint |