Pair of German Porcelain Dolls with Wooden Articulated Bodies and Original Costumes

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7 1/2" (19 cm.) Each has porcelain shoulder head with black sculpted hair,pink-tinted complexion,painted facial features,tiny blue eyes,closed mouth,on all-wooden body with dowel- jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and knees,painted stockings and shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1850. Value Points: the pair have different facial and hair models,the lady with slightly-turned head and hair looped over her ears and captured in a chignon at the back,and the man with sculpted cropped hair,each wearing well-detailed original folklore costume over rare articulated wooden body,and presented under matching domes,with accessories.