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Description
17" (43 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulder head of lady with elongated oval face and strong
throat,midnight-brown sculpted hair looped smoothly over her ears and forming into a triple-
row braided chignon that circles the entire back of her head and is decorated by a sculpted
comb with tortoise-shell-painting on the comb frame and defined teeth,painted grey upper
glancing eyes,black upper eyeliner,single stroke brows,accented nostrils and eye
corners,closed mouth with very full lips,muslin stitch-jointed body,leather arms,wearing fine
antique costume. Condition: there is a restoration on the throat which does not extend into
the head nor into the shoulderplate,all painting of the head,face,and hair is entirely original.
Comments: attributed to Rorstrand Porcelain of Stockholm,circa 1845,very few examples of
dolls by this firm are know to exist.