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Description
19" (48 cm.) Bisque socket head depicting a slightly-older child,deeply-intaglio sculpted
painted blue eyes with large black pupils and white upper eyedots,black and incised
eyeliner,short feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with shaded
and accented lips,impressed dimples at lip corners and cheeks,blonde mohair
wig,composition and wooden ball-jointed body,wearing wonderful antique costume of tweed
jacked,woolen short,shirt,knti stockings,leather tasseled shoes,brown felt flannel Tyrolean
style cap,with wooden-handled blue silk umbrella,and having a silver bird pin and a watch
and fob. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Germany A 5 M. Comments: Marseille,from
their series of rare art character dolls,circa 1910. Value Points: superb artistry of the model is
exemplified by that notion that the child is smiling although the lips are perfectly solemn; the
expression is achieved through the impressed dimples and the painting of the eyes; finest
quality of bisque and painting on the extremely rare model in wonderful large size.