#363

Danish Porcelain Brown-Haired Doll by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain
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$22,000
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14" (36 cm.) Thick paste pressed porcelain shoulder head with oval face and elongated throat, brown painted hair simply looped behind each sculpted ear and pulled into a coil at the back of her head, painted facial features, all kid body with shapely waist, stitched and separated fingers. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: lll. Comments: Royal Copenhagen Porcelain, circa 1845, the doll wears her original rose voile gown with delicately hand-stitched undergarments including a corset and pantalets with ties at the ankles. The doll, referred to as "Signe" while in Estrid Faurholt's collection was described by that collector as "the most finely dressed doll " that she owned. The doll was written about by Kirsten Stadelhofer in Cieslik's Puppenmagazin, 1983.