Tattooed Doll Heads 1 - 6

Vintage, bisque, stuffed with coconut coir.

Heads 3, 4, 5 and 6 are 1880s Victorian antiques, excavated from the site of a 19th-century German ceramics factory.

Heads 1 and 2 are antiques with an less detailed past.

Painted with acrylic ink. Size excluding thread:

1. 5 x 4 x 3.5cm

2. 6.5 x 4.8 x 4.5cm

3. 5 x 3 x 2.5cm

4. 3.5 x 3.8 x 4.8cm

5. 4.8 x 3.5 x 3.5cm

6. 7.5 x 3 x 2.8cm

I'd love to say "from a loving home, carefully stored for decades" but these dolls bear the hallmarks of having been unearthed, forgotten, and sometimes laid alongside rusting materials.

They are rather, "due for a loving home".

I toyed with mounting these in boxes, but I'm of the opinion that if something can dangle, it should. Preferring to hang my own treasures, I decided instead to add a loop of a thread. You can still mount it, but I didn't want to be the one putting a head in a box.

Have I saved one to put on my own Christmas tree? YES. Will it be packed away for a year? Absolutely not. A tattooed baby doll is for all year round.