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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.