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Description
8 1/2" (22 cm.) Paper mache shoulder head with painted facial features, sculpted long black hair which is overlaid by a shell-decorated coiffe, slender kid body with carved wooden limbs, painted yellow shoes, and having an elaborate costume of miniature shells whose intricate designs suggested various textile designs. The doll is preserved under her original glass cabinet. Condition: craquelure on face and shoulders, shell costume beautifully-preserved. Comments: German doll, decorated in the seaside Brittany regions of France, mid-1800s. Value Points: lovely and artistic detail of shell costume design.