Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress miniature hand mirror it must have pulled up

it must have pulled up or down

still work perfectly

Perhaps a post-modern gesture

the National Gallery

Very Soulful Antique Cork Stuffed Stocking Doll with Button Eyes and Embroidered Dress miniature hand mirror it must have pulled upThis wonderful old doll in her much aged embroidered white dress keeps making me think of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations looking as if she's been waiting around forever for a wedding day that never arrived. How soulful she seems now, with a deep intensity to those black beaded eyes, held by thread against her knit stockingette face, white just around the eyes and toned brown nearly everywhere else. And with the woolen stump knot work embroidery