#216

German Porcelain Doll with Wooden Articulated Body
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$2,300
sold
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Description
9.5" (24 cm.) Pink-tinted porcelain shoulder head with slender oval face,elongated throat,black sculpted hair drawn smoothly around the face into coiled chignon,painted facial features,blue eyes,one stroke brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth,all- wooden fully articulated body with dowel-jointing,porcelain lower limbs with painted pink stocking ribbons and black flat shoes,early purple silk dress and bonnet included. Condition: generally excellent,some overpaint to fingers on right hand. Comments: Germany,circa 1859. Value Points: lovely size of the early porcelain lady with rare articulated wooden body.