#148

Rare Petite German Porcelain Doll with Blue Bonnet and Yellow Streamers
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$3,100
sold
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Description
12" (30 cm.) Porcelain shoulder head with black sculpted hair waved away from forehead and captured under a blue bonnet with wide brim,delicate clusters of flowers above each ear,and wide yellow bow under the throat and on either side of the back of bonnet,stippling detail of hair at forehead,painted facial features,blushed cheeks,old leather body with tiny waist,wearing antique muslin gown and undergarments,red leather slippers. Condition: generally excellent,small very old flake at back bonnet rim. Marks: 2/0 (inside shoulder plate). Comments: Germany,circa 1870. Value points: the doll came from the early collection of Estrid Faurholt and was featured in her Book of Dolls and Dollhouses before moving to the Legoland Museum; it was acquired from the auction of that museum by Mary Young.