German Porcelain Doll with Original Articulated Wooden Body and Porcelain Limbs

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9" (23 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulder head with black sculpted hair in short uniform-length ringlet curls, painted facial features, brown eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, black single stroke brows, closed mouth with piquant smile, wooden shapely torso, wooden upper arms and legs, porcelain lower arms and legs, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, painted black ankle boots. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1860. Value Points: rare coiffure, pink-tinted complexion, brown eyes, and very rare body and original transfer-printed body.