#275

German Porcelain Half-Doll "18th Century Lady with Exuberant Bonnet"
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$400
sold
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14" (36 cm.) overall. 5" doll. Waist-up porcelain half-doll portraying a woman with voluminous brown hair having locks tumbling onto her shoulders, a wide-brimmed gray bonnet perched sideways on her hair and with three grand feathers and a large orange bow, her right arm holding the bonnet edge, and her left arm extended, sculpted bodice, attached to wire-frame with silk overlay. Restoration to right hand and feather. Germany, circa 1910.