German Bisque Lady with Glass Eyes and Sculpted Bodice

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14" (36 cm.) Bisque shoulder head depicting an adult lady with elongated throat,rounded face,blue glass inset eyes,dark encircling eyeliner,painted lashes,lightly feathered brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with center accent line,and fully-sculpted pierced ears. She has a sculpted bodice suggesting a chemisette with incised detail of lace and cut-work,and a painted black ribbon necklace with gold and blue medallion. Her muslin stitch-jointed body has bisque lower limbs with painted rose heeled shoes,and she is wearing a cotton gown and undergarment. She has dark blonde sculpted hair arranged in graduated length vertical curls over the forehead and sides of face and framed by a long coronet of curls centered by a black sculpted ribbon; at the back there is a very large and full woven braid flanked by rows of overlapping large finger curls. Condition: generally excellent,one bisque leg restored. Comments: Alt,Beck and Gottschalck,circa 1875. Value Points: rarity factors include glass eyes,very ornate and unusual hair,modeled bodice and jewelry. The doll is shown in Identifying German Parian Dolls by Mary Krombholz,