Tender Antique Black Bottle Doll with Huge Blue Eyes fine textile loaded with color and detailed

loaded with  color and detailed pattern

giving it all a rather magical and even more otherworldly feeling

which led me to learn that images of babies spilling and dropping things (usually in tears) seems to have been a bit of a thing in the early years of the 20th century

Her arms and hands are hand-sewn of leather

Tender Antique Black Bottle Doll with Huge Blue Eyes fine textile loaded with color and detailedAnother from the Rockport, MA estate of the artist, activist and collector Ellen Gabin, who had a special fondness for dolls this one I think my favorite of all. Teeming with life, with wonderful hand embroidered face that feels full of hope and longing, on sock stockingette body, the upper body stuffed and the lower half stretched over a weighted bottle, which allows her to stand up tall on her own. With white hand sewn undergarments, included long