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Description
22" (56 cm.) Bisque socket head portraying a solemn-faced older boy with slender elongated
face,defined eye sockets with painted pale blue eyes,thick dark eyeliner,white eye
dots,aquiline nose with rounded nose tip and accented nostrils,closed mouth with very full
lips,brunette mohair bobbed wig,composition and wooden ball-jointed body. Condition:
generally excellent,flawless bisque with no wig pulls at all. Marks: K*R 107 56. Comments:
Kammer and Reinhardt,circa 1910,from their art character reform series. The doll was
sculpted for the firm by the Berlin artist Lewin-Funcke after his original 1898 sculpture
named "portrait of a boy" (the history of this is related in German Doll Studies by Cieslik,page
227),and the model was made in two sizes only,this being the rare large size. Value Points:
among the rarest of the German art character dolls,this example has finest quality
bisque,sculpting and painting,with deeply-defined cheek hollows and very full artistically-
shaded pouting lips,original wig,original body,and wonderful original Scottish costume whose
great detail even includes wooden and felt-flannel bag pipe.