Very Rare American Cloth Portrait Doll of Gentleman by Martha Chase

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15" (38 cm.) All cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features,complexion and hair,depicting an adult gentleman with kind smile,having pronounced nose,stitched ears,brown impasto-painted hair with curls onto the side of face,shaded grey eyes,heavy eyelids,painted curly upper lashes,brown fringed brows,closed mouth with kind smile,slender body with cotton sateen body cover,oil- painted stitch-jointed arms and legs,separate thumbs and defined fingers,antique blue woolen costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Martha Chase of Rhode Island,circa 1890,from a rare series of adult gentleman and ladies made by the firm; the doll may represent an unidentified story book character. Value Points: very rare model with outstanding quality of painting,distinctive nose shape and unusual painting of hair substantiate that this is a portrait of a particular person.