Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase To my eye a beautifully

To my eye a beautifully primitive

and is perhaps is the "after" version of the woman at upper left who has not yet glimpsed the robber

It certainly smacks of love and care

I would guess this belonged to one of the two so dates to sometime between the very beginning of the 19th century and the very early 1830s

I believe the stone is granite

Set of Five Watercolor Paper Doll Dresses staffordshire spill vase To my eye a beautifullyI played with paper dolls as a child, but just ones I cut out of a book, never handmade and carefully watercolored ones such as this, with pencil drawn lace and details, too, and which I might guess someone's mother lovingly made for them. I just can't not rescue things like this, which just need a cutout figure to put them into play again, or would be lovely together in a frame. Set includes five in total, as documented. 7 1 2" to 8 inches tall and