#217

German Porcelain Lady with Highly-Stylized Coiffure
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$450
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Description
21" (53 cm.) Porcelain shoulderhead of adult lady, slender face, elongated throat, black sculpted hair with unusual vertical finger curls at her forehead enhanced with feathered detail, her hair drawn back between fully-sculpted ears into arranged curls at the back of head, muslin stitch-jointed body, porcelain hands, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1870. Value Points: most unusual coiffure with carefully arranged curls, proud face.