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Porcelain Doll Known as 'Morning Glory Lady' with Black hair, Attributed to Schlaggenwald
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Description

26" (66 cm). Of creamy very thick paste porcelain with pink-tinted complexion, the doll portrays an adult woman with cameo-shaped face, very elongated throat and modeled bosom. Her black painted hair is waved away from her face, behind her pierced ears, forming large rolls of curls and a braided coil at the back of head with tendrils of curls onto the neck. The hair is decorated at each side with colorful flowers including morning glories. She has painted blue eyes in sculpted sockets, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, aquiline muslin with brown leather arms, and she wears a patterned cotton lawn gown, undergarments and slippers. The doll is marked with 'S' in script block letter over 75 on inside shoulder plate. Attributed to Schlaggenwald, circa 1850. From the collection of Mildred Seeley.