$2,500
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Description
10" (25 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulder head
portraying an adult lady with elongated throat and
oval-shaped face,painted blue eyes,red and black
upper eyeliner,single stroke brows,accented
nostrils of aquiline-shaped nose,closed mouth with
center accent line and blushed cheeks. She has a
carved wooden body with tiny waist,elongated upper
torso,dowel-jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and
knees,and porcelain lower limbs with painted white
stockings and red shoes. Her sculpted black hair
is center-parted and arranged in long ringlet
curls of graduated length. Condition: generally
excellent. Comments: Germany,circa 1850. Value
Points: very beautiful complexion and
painting,deeply comb-marked hair details,wooden body.