#59

German Bisque Lady with Lustre Trimmed Snood
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$900
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Description
10" (25 cm.) Bisque shoulder head portraying adult lady with slender face and elongated throat,painted bright blue eyes,red and black upper eyeliner,feathered brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth with accent line and blushed cheeks. She has her original muslin stitch-jointed body with bisque lower limbs,painted flat black shoes,and is wearing an antique brown linen ensemble. Her blonde sculpted hair is waved around the sides of her face and captured in a sculpted green snood with purple lustre tasseled scarf and white lustre plume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany,attributed to Alt,Beck and Gottschalck,circa 1870. Value Points: rare model is particularly charming in this petite size with superb detail of hair ornamentation.