Small Baby Dolls

Antique bisque porcelain doll bodies.

Various maker's marks on the back. 

Painted with acrylic ink.

Size excluding thread:

Boxed Doll 6.8 x 9.4 x 3.6cm doll (4 x 1.5cm) presented in a reclaimed box detailed with enamel gloss

Unboxed doll 8 x 3.3cm

I'd love to say "from a loving home, carefully stored for decades" but these dolls bear the hallmarks of having been unearthed, forgotten, and sometimes laid alongside rusting materials.

They are rather, "due for a loving home".

I toyed with mounting these in boxes, but I'm of the opinion that if something can dangle, it should. Preferring to hang my own treasures, I decided instead to add a loop of a thread. You can still mount it, but I didn't want to be the one putting a head in a box.

Have I saved one to put on my own Christmas tree? YES. Will it be packed away for a year? Absolutely not. A tattooed baby doll is for all year round.