Name: Baby with Attitude
Made by and When: Goldie Wilson, 2013
Material: Porcelain with pellet-stuffed brown cloth body
Marks: Signed by the artist on lower back
Height: 16 inches
Hair/Eyes/Mouth: Dark brown natural-textured, floppy wig/brown inset eyes with applied upper eyelashes, painted lower eyelashes/closed mouth
Clothes: White antique baby dress, white pantaloons, white headband with ribbon; bare feet
Other: A handwritten short story on the doll’s back reads: I am hungry. I want to go home.
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