
23" (58 cm.) Bisque socket head with rounded facial shape and delicate pale bisque, tiny almond shaped blue glass inset eyes, dark eye liner, delicately painted lashes, widely arched feathered brows, mauve blushed eye shadow, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, slightly parted lips, two rows of tiny teeth, unpierced blushed earlobes, blonde lambswool wig over cork pate, Steiner composition and wooden fully-jointed body with straight wrists, wearing lovely antique white cotton and lace dress and bonnet, undergarments, stockings, leather shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Jules Steiner, circa 1880. Value Points: rare early model with compelling expression, unusually large size for this early doll, original body and body finish, lovely bisque with luminous complexion.