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Description
18" (46 cm.) Composition socket head with hand-pressed and painted complexion and facial features, blue painted eyes, upper eyeliner, feathered brows, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth with very full downcast pouting lips, blushed cheeks, brunette human hair wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed body, nice antique costume and undergarments. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Munich Art Doll from the studios of artist Marian Kaulitz, circa 1908, whose dolls are considered the forerunners of the sought-after art doll movement of the next five years. Value Points: the solemn-faced child has intelligent, pensive expression achieved by artistic painting.