#331

Rare German Art Characters
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$600
sold
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Description
14" (36 cm.) and 15". Each has hard composition head with flanged neck and sculpted blonde hair,(the girl with braided coronet and blue bow,and the boy with short side-parted hair),painted facial features,closed mouth with petulant expression,firmly-stuffed cloth body with disc-jointed legs,composition ball-jointed arms,each wearing factory-original folklore costume. Condition: generally excellent,complexion a bit faded. Marks: Inge (or Harald) W 7 (heads) D.R. 257216 (body). Comments: Wagner and Zetzche,circa 1916,the dolls were made of a unique composition named "Haralit". Defined by their maker and as art character dolls they were modeled (and named after) Harald and Inge,the children of Zetzche,sculpted by Franz Reissmann. Value Points: rare and important models in the art character movement.