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Description
Costume: cap, gown, skirt, petticoat, chemise, apron, separate sleeves, carrying a baby wrapped in a shawl, with knitting, knitted stockings, clogs, separate hat.
Body: Wax head, soft stuffed body, leather hands, glass eyes.
Height: 45cm from cap to sole of clog
Hat: felt
General observations:
This doll with a baby has a typical Pembrokeshire plain-coloured brown short-tailed gown, with only one of the two buttons normally found at the small of the back. The front is crossed over. The skirt is striped fabric, the lower part of which is badly faded.
The shawl, which is a triangle, probably made from a square, cut in half (the other half used for the other doll in this pair, D5).
Date: 1889
Provenance and history: Made for Miss Emily Warren Davies, and her sister by their aunt, Christmas, 1889. The costume was said to be like that of the Llangwm women, Pembrokeshire, who gathered and sold shell food.
A pair with D5.
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