German Bisque Lady with Sculpted White Hair,Earrings and Necklace

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15" (38 cm.) Bisque shoulder head with rounded facial shape,elongated throat,painted dark blue eyes with encircling dark eyeliner,red upper eyeliner,painted lashes,lightly feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with center accent line,muslin stitch-jointed body with new bisque lower arms,wearing antique gold taffeta gown with black lace trim. She has a three-strand molded necklace with gilt decoration,and matching sculpted earrings. Her hair,an unusual nearly-white blonde color is waved away from her face into framing curls,one frivolous curl at the right forehead edging the porcelain-glazed feather that decorates her crown,and forming into nine horizontal rolled curls at the back,each separated by a row of white beads,then forming into a small confection of curls at the nape of her neck clasped by a wide barette with gilt trim. Condition: shoulderplate has virtually imperceptible reglue under costume,body weak. Comments: attributed to Alt,Beck and Gottschalck,circa 1870. Value Points: rarity factors include hair color,hair ornaments,necklace,earrings,painted eye lashes,lovely antique costume. She owns two blue ribbon awards from UFDC conventions.