German Bisque Lady Doll with Sculpted Plumes and Nape Curls

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17" (43 cm.) Bisque shoulder head depicting very slender-faced adult lady with elongated throat,painted upper glancing blue eyes,red and black upper eyeliner,single stroke brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with center accent line,and pierced ears. She has very pale blonde hair waved away face and behind her sculpted and pierced ears to form into two long loose braids that are drawn up at the center back and covered by three long ringlet curls that extend past her nape onto her shoulders,her short forehead curls are nearly-covered with a glazed sculpted white plume decorated with gold highlights. She has a muslin stitch-jointed body and bisque lower limbs with painted flat black shoes,and wears an antique aqua silk gown. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 14 (outside shoulder-plate) 7 (inside shoulder-plate). Comments: Conta & Boehme,circa 1870. Value Points: superb detail of rare coiffure,decorated plume,pierced ears,fine quality of bisque with glazed decorations. The doll was a blue ribbon winner at 2002 UFDC national convention in Denver and is featured in Identifying German Parian Dolls by Mary Krombholz.