Ok, one more early modern original. Dolls are very seasonal for Christmas, and this one even has a lovely muff to keep her hands warm in the winter cold.
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| Fashion Doll, c. 1600, Staten Historika Museer. |
I'm relying on translation software, but I believe the museum's website describes this doll as wearing a purple silk gown with gold lace; red silk sleeves (now faded) with gold mesh and pearls, and embroidered in red, silver, and gold; silk petticoat with silver; rose-color tafetta petticoat with gold; and a yellow taffeta bodice (bodiced petticoat?). The doll's face is silk embroidery on taffeta, with real hair; headdress of gold lace and pearls. [Additional views, including the doll's braided hairstyle, are available at Isis' Wardrobe.]
This doll is attributed to either Princess Katarina of Sweden (daughter of King Charles IX and by marriage the Countess Palantine of Kleeburg; she was also Gustavus Adolphus's older half-sister and guardian to young Queen Christina) or her mother Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern. An alternative date range of roughly the 1590s is also given in the object description; Katarina was born in 1584, and was the only surviving child at the time of her mother's death in 1589.
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