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Description
13" (33 cm.) Carved gesso-over-wooden shoulder head with oval face and elongated throat, carved and painted hair drawn around her face in deep waves and captured in a coiled braided chignon, painted complexion and facial features, painted blue eyes, eyeliner and brows, closed mouth, softly blushed cheeks, muslin-covered upper torso, carved wooden lower torso, legs and arms, dowel-jointing at hips, shoulders and knees, spatula-shaped hands, painted flat black shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Grodnertal, circa 1840. Value Points: rare wooden body with original wooden shoulderhead, original finish, and wearing original well-detailed folklore costume and jewelry. The doll was featured in a 1991 article "Unusual Dolls" in Doll News written by Estelle Johnston who identified the costume as a "stylized version of that of Santa Marie de Nueva, Spain".