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Description
17" (43 cm.) Un-tinted porcelain shoulder head
with rounded facial shape,cobalt blue glass enamel
inset eyes,thick dark encircling eyeliner,painted
lashes,lightly feathered brows,accented nostrils
and eye corners,closed mouth with center accent
line,and blonde lambswool wig over cork pate. She
has original softly-stuffed kid poupee body with
gusset-jointing,pink-tinted porcelain arms to
above the elbows,cupped hands with outlined
nails,and is wearing an antique frail bronze silk
gown,undergarments,leather slippers,and bonnet.
Condition: generally excellent,old firing line on
right arm. Comments: attributed to Leontine
Rohmer,circa 1860. Ex-collection Madeleine Merrill
and featured in her book The Art of the Doll.
Value Points: beautiful clarity of porcelain,and
rich cobalt eyes dramatized by eyeliner,nice cheek
blush.