16" (40 cm). Of creamy thick paste porcelain with hand-pressed details and slightest delicate pink tinted complexion, the shoulderhead doll with six sew holes portrays an adult lady with slender oval face, very elongated throat with defined throat hollow, sloping shoulders and defined bosom. Her rich brown hair is arranged in a center-part, looped around her blushed ears, with tiny curls behind each ear, and wrapped in a coil at the back of the head. The doll has a leather stitch-jointed body with porcelain arms. She wears a grey taffeta gown, undergarments and shoes. The doll is signed "111" inside its shoulder plate. There are two chips at bottom of shoulder plate, the porcelain arms are not original, there is a paint rub at the back hair coil. Circa 1850. From the collection of Mildred Seeley.