Tattooed Doll Heads 1 - 3

 Vintage, bisque, stuffed with coconut coir.

Heads 1 and 3 are 1880s Victorian antiques, excavated from the site of a 19th-century German ceramics factory.

Head 2 is a also German antique, hand-painted post-firing.

Painted with acrylic ink.

Size, excluding thread:

1. 6.5 x 4.5 x 4.8

2 5.5 x 4 x 4cm

3. 4.3 x 4.5 x 4.5cm

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.