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Description
18" (46 cm.) Bisque shoulder head with pale complexion, brown sculpted hair drawn from face with feathering details around the forehead, arranged curls at the back of her head decorated by a gilt-edged blue hair band with white bead trim, pink hair bow, painted blue eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, closed mouth, pierced ears, very elaborate bodice including sculpted white bead necklace, Dresden pink-glazed ruffle, painted rick-rack trim, muslin stitch-jointed body, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent, professional restoration of the pink hair bow. Comments: C.F. Kling, circa 1870, this model and a variation are shown in German Parian Dolls by Mary Krombholz, page 56/57. Value Points: rarity factors include brown hair, hair ornaments, very elaborate decoration of bodice.