#30

German Porcelain Doll with Wooden Articulated Body and Porcelain Limbs
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$3,800
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Description
8" (20 cm.) Pink tinted porcelain shoulderhead, black sculpted hair drawn smoothly around the sides of face and captured in chignon at the back of head, blue eyes, black and red upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, closed mouth, wooden torso and upper limbs with dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, and porcelain lower arms and legs, right hand posed for holding object, painted red shoes, included is antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1850. Value Points: very fine state of originality, tinted complexion, rare coiffure.