Painted Cloth Doll by Jude Kappron

Beatrice, a painted cloth doll by Jude Kappron appears to be in deep thought about an expectation.

 Beatrice is a 19-inch painted cloth doll with sculpted facial features and sculpted ears.  The artist uses a papier-mache process to sculpt the features.

She wears a sheer white dress with pink ribbon accents at the bodice.  Underneath the dress is a white slip and white pantaloons.

Beatrice's sculpted ears can be seen in this photo and later in another.

I love her textured hair and multiple braids.

This photo illustrates the way portions of the hair were braided by the artist and accented with dark pink ribbons.

The wig has a natural texture and is styled the way many young girls wore their hair in the 1950s and 1960s except the braided sections were more uniform as illustrated in this photo.

The artist's signature and the year the doll was made are on Beatrice's back.

Beatrice's back is signed and dated by the artist.

These are the shoes Bea arrived wearing; one is missing a button

She originally wore vintage, oversized child-size pink leather Mary-Jane-style shoes.  One of the shoes is missing a button on the top front.

Temporary replacement shoes

Because of the ill fit and the missing button, I swapped the original shoes for a more modern pair of pink pleather shoes.  (Oh no! not pleather!)  I do plan to find another vintage pair that provides the same fit as these replacement shoes.

Now with pierced ears

I thought she'd appreciate having pierced ears, so with pink quilting pins that serve as stud earrings, I pierced Beatrice's ears.

Beatrice likes her stud earrings and the better fit of these shoes.

I really love her innocent-looking facial expression and original vintage theme, which is why I will find different, real leather shoes or optionally replace the missing button on the original shoe or replace both buttons with buttons I have on hand.  (I do not have a matching button on hand like the one on the other shoe; all my buttons have four holes instead of two.)

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Jude sells dolls on Ruby Lane in her Artistic Differences Shop where, at the time of this post, a similar doll is currently listed.

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