Doll

Child doll with a painted wood head with the remnants of a brown wig. She is dressed in a gown of Indian silk, striped satin blue and white with a narrow red border, embroidered with red tulips, with attached leading strings. Her other clothes include a linen muslin apron and white suede mittens. This doll was for admiring, not playing with. The gown is made from Indian silk embroidered with small flowers. Captain William Kidd, the notirous pirate, had ‘a Remnant of striped Bengale’ fabric among his possessions.

The dress is lined with bright yellow moiré silk (with a selvage (red and white stripe 1/8 ins). She wears 3 petticoats: (1) matching yellow moiré silk; (2) off white 2\2 cotton twill; (3) shift, fine plain linen. She wears knitted pink silk stockings with blue satin ribbon garters. The undergarments are made from English materials. The cap lace is trimmed with a patterned ribbon mid-18th century.