Headless Old Hand Knit Doll with Linen Arms and Patches pottery signed davis with lavender used around the

with lavender used around the lip of the lid as well

one presses down and turns the lid

and signed EP in lower right

The accounting is very neatly divided in to categories: Grain

Headless Old Hand Knit Doll with Linen Arms and Patches pottery signed davis with lavender used around theI do seem to have a certain penchant for dolls that have lost their heads! I think this one likely had a china head, which might have some greater objective value than the body and so perhaps was removed, or maybe broken, leaving a few stitches on the bib and some old glue on the neck behind. It could certainly be given a head once again, but I find it quite an evocative and very honest feeling thing as it is, with these patches of white cloth sewn