Super Sweet Antique Ragdoll with Embroidered Face and Yellow Dress Helen malta drawing I just love the form

I just love the form of these two facing perched birds

and his finished

with that round and deep lower half offset by its dramatically sloping lid which doubles as a handle

I'd think they've seen more than a few pies or quiche or maybe pot pies

8 1/8" long x 6 5/8" deep x 7" tall

Super Sweet Antique Ragdoll with Embroidered Face and Yellow Dress Helen malta drawing I just love the formI've developed a real weakness for handmade cloth dolls, and this is quite an old one, with a super warm, serene personality, which I must say makes her very nice to have around! Very late 19th very early 20th century I believe, sewn of cotton fabric and stuffed with cloth it seems, with a hand embroidered face and cotton yarn (dyed in variegated shades of browns) for her wonderful head of hair. Simple, short arms and legs, and then this long yellow