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Description
14" (36 cm.) Thick paste porcelain shoulder head
depicting adult lady with gentle expression,having
blue painted downcast eyes,red and black upper
eyeliner,single stroke brows,accented nostrils and
eye corners,and closed mouth with piquant smile.
Her black sculpted hair is arranged in a
center-part with three arranged graduated size
finger curls above each ear and sculpted away from
the head,and the remainder of her hair pulled
smoothly back into a coiled chignon at the back.
She has a simple early muslin body and wears red
cotton dress and undergarments. Condition: early
restoration to shoulder plate,hands worn away on
body. Comments: Germany,circa 1855. Value Points:
very rare early model with wonderful
coiffure,unusual facial expression with uniquely
sculpted nose.