#90

Outstanding German
Live Auction

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$13,000
sold
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Description
25" (64 cm.) Composition socket head with deeply-impressed character features,very full cheeks tapering to narrow elongated throat,defined eye sockets with sculpted eyelids,brown painted eyes,one-stroke tapered brows,rounded nose tip,accented nostrils,closed mouth with full lips,sculpted ears,brunette mohair braids,composition and wooden ball-jointed body,wearing antique country costume,undergarments,striped stockings,shoes,bonnet. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: attributed to Marion Kaulitz Munich Art Dolls series,circa 1909. Value Points: outstanding sculpting with fine original artistic painting of features,rarely found model especially in this 25" size. Ex-collection Puppen and Spielzeug Museum of Vienna,Austria. $6000/9000