Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes old handmade toy --this sign

--this sign

perfectly aged condition

turning it into a portrait of human smallness in relation to the vastness of the natural world

rendered on fine china

I think their shapes are beautiful

Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes old handmade toy --this signThis one! Perhaps the most unusual of all the dolls I've come across, and certainly the most haunting! Her head is I believe bisque, but has a wax layer over it, which one can feel when scraping a fingernail across the surface. Her arms and hands are hand sewn of leather, with individuated fingers, and then leather booties stitched to her linen legs. Underneath her hand sewn dress are two more layers a light wool cream colored skirt and white linen