#40

Pair, Early German Porcelain Dolls in Original Folklore Costumes of Westphalia
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$2,800
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Description
16" (41 cm.) Each has pink-tinted porcelain shoulderhead with short black sculpted hair in centerpart and with feathered stippled curls around the forehead, fully-modeled ears, painted blue eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, original firmly-stuffed muslin body with porcelain lower arms. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1850. Value Points: the matched pair, man and woman, wearing original well-detailed costumes of Westphalia region, and are very rare to find especially as a matched pair.