AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BISQUE HEADED BABY DOLL BY THEODOR RECKNAGEL, C. 1909

the back of the neck impressed N K 5, with weighted blue eyes, open mouth, two lower teeth, five piece curved limb composition body, dressed in cotton whitework undergarments and dress, woollen flannel cape, white socks, dirty and dusty

43.5cm in length

Provenance: Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Pre-Enlightenment Wunderkabinett or Cabinet of Curiosities. It is the creation of artist and writer Viktor Wynd, who has just opened a Falmouth branch of his museum inside the National Maritime Museum. His most recent book 'The UnNatural History Museum' was published by Prestel in 2020.