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20" (51 cm.) One-piece wooden head and torso with shapely bosom and waist, slightly-shaped back torso and head, unusual pear-shaped face with dainty point chin and nose, wide inset brown enamel eyes, dark eyeliner, "dot" lashes and arched brows, closed mouth, blush spots on cheeks, brunette human hair, cloth upper arms, wooden lower legs with spatula hands, dowel-jointing at hips and knees, slightly-shapely legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: English, mid-1700s, the early ownership of the doll is not known but in the early 1900s, the doll was found in the connoisseur collection of A.M.G. Seligmann, colleague of Henri d'Allegmagne, the famed early scholar of French dolls. The doll appeared in a 1931 exhibition Yesterday's Children and was featured in that catalog (see photograph). Value Points: wonderful facial shape with piquant expression, original painting, body, and wearing fine original transfer-patterned gown, undergarments, coin pocket, hoop, laced slippers, bonnet, and jewelry, and owns an additional early silk gown "a la polonaise".