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21" (53 cm.) All-wooden doll has sculpted head with heart-shaped face, very pronounced elongated throat and modeled bosom with defined bodice ridge, brown painted pate, deeply-sculpted painted brown eyes with decorative glaze to appear as though enamel eyes, strong nose, fringed upper lashes, single stroke brows, shaded nostrils, closed mouth, well-sculpted pronounced ears, shapely torso with extended-length upper torso, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, elegantly-posed fingers, shapely lower legs, painted pale rose slippers. Condition: generally excellent, original finish, nose rub, original tack holes for wig at forehead rim, structurally excellent. Marks: (early ink script on front and back torso). Comments: Grodnertal, late18th-century, a virtually identical doll is shown in The Art of Dolls by Madeline Merrill, page. 8, with a note that that doll was documented as having arrived in America in 1797. Value Points: superb sculpting with highly-refined aristocratic demeanor, shapely body with sculpted bosom, original finish, rare larger size. Ex-collection June Ellen Lane.