Amazing Patchwork Doll with Carved Wooden Head pine box There is a split in

There is a split in the wood at the hip of one leg

it feels like bringing a little piece of the ocean or sky inside

Overall very good condition with one water stain/run at upper left and light craquelure as evident

as these are--with the ones I've found dating the 1830s

including perhaps the year

Amazing Patchwork Doll with Carved Wooden Head pine box There is a split inThis doll completely breaks my heart I find her so beautiful, her body sewn together in a fantastic, layered and tactile patchwork of odds and ends, with the wild woven passage over her chest being my favorite, though the sweetly hand embroidered cloth of her arms and lower body is pretty wonderful too. And then this very sensitively carved wooden head, which to my eye gives her a look of wisdom and self possession, framed by green and black checkered