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Description
28" (71 cm.) Thick-paste porcelain shoulderhead with pink-tinted complexion, oval face and very elongated throat and modeled bosom, black painted hair waved away from her face behind her pierced ears forming into large rolls of curls and a braided coil at the back of head with tendrils of curls onto the neck and decorated at each side with colorful flowers including morning glories, painted blue eyes in sculpted sockets, red and black upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, aquiline nose, accented nostrils, closed mouth with outlined lips, stitch-jointed muslin body with brown leather arms, wearing embroidered white gown, undergarments and slippers. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: S 75 (script block letter on inside shoulderplate). Comments: Lippert & Haas of Schlaggenwald, circa 1850, the doll is believed to be a portrait of the beloved Princess Elisabeth ("Sissi") of Vienna inspired by a famous painting of her by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Value Points: rare model of refined beauty achieved by superbly sculpted details.