Dolls

This list includes medieval doll figurines as well as Renaissance-era fashionable dolls, as well as dolls' clothes.

Additional articles: Jointed Dolls in Antiquity (American Journal of Archaeology #34), Living Dolls: François I^er Dresses His Women (Renaissance Quarterly 60.1) and Medieval Dolls.

Elsewhere on this site, you can find dolls from the 18th century.

• British Museum 1905,1021.13, a Roman rag doll made in Egypt, 1st-5th century AD
• A Roman bone articulated doll, c. late 2nd century AD
• Carved bone doll (Byzantine, carved c. 400-700) with tunic (Byzantine, woven c. 500-800)
• A cloth doll and carved wooden doll and bone dolls from Coptic Egypt at the Benaki Museum
• Toys and doll clothes, 8th-9th century, Northern Caucasus
Thei may be called legges of clowtes, as childre make popettis for to play with whil thei be yong.

The Pilgrimage of the Soul,
British Library MS Egerton 615, 1413

• A doll-maker, Hortus Sanitatis, 1497
• The Stoneleigh Triptych, c. 1506; Isabel (at right) holds a doll
• A wooden doll from Thuringia, c. 1530
• In several versions of "Christ Blessing the Children" by Lucas Cranach the Elder or his followers, a small girl in the foreground carries a doll.
  In the versions at the Hamburger Kunsthalle and Städelmuseum, it’s a simple painted peg doll.
  In the versions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Schloß Friedenstein, the doll resembles a swaddled infant.
  In the versions at St. Anna in Augsburg and the Larvik church, the doll wears a dress, though it is hard to tell whether the doll is meant to look like a little girl or an adult woman.
• Clauß Schach makes wooden dolls and boxes, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317b.2, fol. 10v), 1558
• Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II of Austria, his wife Infanta Maria of Spain, and their children by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, c. 1563
• Portrait of Arabella Stuart, 1577
  Arabella clutches a fashion doll; the style of the doll's clothing date from about ten years before than the portrait, lending credence to the theory that fashion dolls would be given to children as playthings after they were used or out-of-date. For additional information about dolls from this era, see Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, pp. 107 and 157-158.
• Portrait of Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, 1577
• Foemina Mediocris conditionis in Silesia (Commoner from Silesia) from Habitus praecipuorum populorum by Hans Weigel, 1577
• Doll, c. 1585-1590
• A girl with a doll and A Noblewoman of Pomeiock, illustrated by Theodore de Bry in Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia, 1590
• A little girl holding a doll and a basket of cherries by Jacob Gerritz. Cuyp
• Catharina van Warmondt by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg, 1596
• Pandora, a fashion doll of 1600
• Portrait of a girl with a rattle and a doll by Jan Claesz, c. 1609
• Three young girls, 1620
• Dolls' stall, Jacob Cats' Spiegel van den ouden ende nieuwen tijdt, 1632
• A family group, c. 1655
• 17th century dolls at the Nordiska museet: NM.0002203A, NM.0002203B, NM.0002203C

• Medieval children's toys found in the excavations of a Carmelite friary in Esslingen, Germany
• Clay-pipe dolls, 14th century Nuremburg
• Dolls, 14th century Nuremburg
• Fragments of dolls, 14th century Nuremburg (also here)
The rootes which are counterfited and made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes with heir and such forme as man hath, are nothyng elles but folishe fened trifles and not naturall.

William Turner's Herball, 1562

• Clay figurines (dolls) with the "Kruseler" headdress, Upper Rhine, 14th-16th centuries
• A praying monk, Tulln, 15th century
• Clay figurine (doll), Rhineland (Glogau?), 15th century
• Two clay dolls, 15th century Germany
• A figurine-seller in a detail from an altarpiece, 1445
• 16th century (German?) metal dolls found in England
• Museum of London 6412 and A26527, stoneware toy figurines of women riding horses sidesaddle, made in Raeren, c. 1500-1540, and found in London
• Lead alloy female toy figurine, 16th century
• Doll made in Thüringia c. 1530