$6,500
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
14" (36 cm.) Solid domed bisque socket head with chubby face, sculpted blonde forelock, topknot and side curls, large brown glass side-glancing googly eyes, thick black eyeliner, short dark curly lashes, dot brows, little button-shaped nose, closed mouth in thin-lipped smile with impressed dimples at each lip corner, sculpted blue wing below each ear, composition chubby toddler body with plump tummy, jointing at shoulders and side hips and knees of short legs, starfish-shaped hands. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Ges Gesch O'Neill JDK 12 (head) O'Neill (signature on foot). Comments: Kestner, circa 1912, from the original Kewpie designs by Rose O'Neill. Value Points: finest bisque and painting, superb sculpting of hair, original body and body finish. This is the very rare largest model of the composition-bodied Kewpie; it was only on this size of the socket head Kewpie that blue wings were included.