Context (Related Documents)
Old label adhered to objects read '159A' and '159B' respectively.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Accession register reads: 'Purchased in the Hamburg marketplace'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Description for E 1898.15 A-C: 'Three dolls. A and B: representing costume of Hamburg flower girls called " Vierlanderinnen" . Their number is now very small. C: dressed as a Hamburg servant girl.'
Event Date 22/4/1991
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The base record for E 1898.15 previously noted 'The storage location is for A and B only'. C was not found in this box, 13/10/2000. However, a doll has now been found which was previously misidentified as E 1900.160 C, stored in box 11.H.4 (Poland). It has now been correctly identified as E 1898.15 C and was stored in 11.H.1 (Germany).
Event Date 25/10/2000
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Description for E 1989.15 A-C: 'Dolls have painted porcelain face, arms and legs and is dressed in cloth costumes. A-B have straw hats. B and C have metal sequins on their costumes. On B the left leg is becoming detached'
Event Date 25/10/2000
Author: Sam Daisley

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1392 | Repack
Event Date 11/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Porcelain doll in the costume of a 'Vierlanderinnen', or a Hamburg flower girl. The doll wears a straw hat, and cloth shirt in red and white with a black bodice decorated with sequins, red shirt and pink and black striped apron. The head, arms and legs are painted porcelain. One leg is detached but present.
Event Date 12/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley