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Description
14" (36 cm.) Pink-tinted poured wax shoulder head with well-defined facial features, throat hollow and cleavage, brilliant blue glass inset eyes, painted facial details, light brunette inserted hair, soft muslin body with poured wax limbs, bare feet. Condition: generally excellent, hair a bit sparse, costume delicate. Comments: English, in the Montanari style, circa 1860, the doll closely resembles the young Queen Victoria at the mid-19th century and is wearing her original exquisitely detailed gown, undergarments, and tiara of intertwined silk ribbons and metallic threads. Value Points: remarkably realistic portrait of the beloved Queen, provenance Legoland Museum of Antique Dolls from the original collection of Estrid Faurholt who described the doll in her 1967 Book of Dolls and Dollhouses as "Victoria in wax...an imposing personage.