Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair painting on paddle inky glazing

inky glazing

or perhaps attached to a base

His work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts & Design

though paint along the roof line on one short side seems to prevent it from  opening

so here this is

Beautiful Black Folk Art Stockinette Doll with Astrakhan Hair painting on paddle inky glazingA beautiful, very tender feeling doll I think, which I believe dates to sometime between about 1910 and 1930. Her head and body were made of of black knit stocking firmly stuffed, with separate rolled pieces for her arms and legs, which were hand stitched to the torso. Hand embroidered black eyes, red nose and slightly open red mouth, adding up to a face that makes her feel to me keenly observant if a bit wary. Her hair is astrakhan (lambs wool, still