Outstanding Early German Porcelain Lady with Sculpted Hat and Brown Hair

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22" (56 cm.) Thick paste porcelain shoulder head slightly turned to left,rounded facial shape,painted blue eyes in deeply set eye sockets,red and black upper eyeliner,one stroke brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth with outlined full lips. She has her original muslin stitch-jointed body and leather arms,and is wearing her original blue striped two-piece cotton gown,with undergarments,stockings,early twill/kid shoes. Her brown hair is sculpted in neatly arranged long finger curls that wave behind her ears and tumble onto her shoulders,and is topped by a sculpted blue toque in shades of aqua and blue with black rims and red sculpted feather. Condition: generally excellent,an early 1_ hairline at side of right shoulder. Comments: attributed to Alt,Beck and Gottschalck,circa 1865,the doll in this costume was featured on page 92 of the early doll book,_The Dolls of Yesterday_ by Eleanor St. George. Value Points: extremely rare early model with wonderfully sculpted hair,rare brown hair,and provenance.