Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes black and white glass vase This is a wonderful copy

This is a wonderful copy and feels like quite a special thing to hold in your hands

bright and clear and crisp

I know that reverse glass painting was taught to young women in the first half of the 19th century and then became widely popular as a decorative art from about 1850 to 1890

the more the better

(I removed the drawing to photograph it

Amazing (and very intense!) Antique 22 Inch Waxed Doll with Blue Glass Eyes black and white glass vase This is a wonderful copyThis one! Perhaps the most unusual of all the dolls I've come across, and certainly the most haunting! Her head is I believe bisque, but has a wax layer over it, which one can feel when scraping a fingernail across the surface. Her arms and hands are hand sewn of leather, with individuated fingers, and then leather booties stitched to her linen legs. Underneath her hand sewn dress are two more layers a light wool cream colored skirt and white linen