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Description
23" (58 cm.) All-wooden doll with swivel head, elongated face with very full cheeks, painted brown hair with sculpted and feathered details, highly-characterized facial features including defined eye sockets, painted brown eyes with red and black upper eyeliner, tinted brows, strong nose, closed mouth, sculpted ears, fully-articulated body including ball-swivel waist, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, well-defined fingers and toes. Condition: very good/excellent, thumb and one finger broken on left hand, original painted finish. Comments: early/mid-1800s, the mannequin figures appeared in early catalogs of German wholesalers at this time, usually with standard simply-carved heads; models such as this and the preceding lot were created under special commission with distinctive portrait like features. Value Points: slender adult like features on the rare and artistic early wooden doll. Ex-collection Robert Capia, the noted late Parisian antiquarian.