15à (38 cm.) Solid domed bisque shoulder head, brown glass inset eyes, painted facial features, closed mouth with downcast pouty expression, blonde mohair wig, original muslin commercial body, bisque lower arms. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 167-4 (doll) Gekleidete Puppen (box label meaning 'dressed doll'). Comments: Kling, circa 1890, the doll is perfectly preserved in fine unplayed with condition, wearing maroon sateen and lace dress with matching bonnet, undergarments,stockings,leather shoes,and with her original red box. The doll and its costume identified as from the doll fashion house of Johannes Franz of Sonneberg and designed to capture the French doll market has been featured in articles such as Cieslik's Puppenmagazin, 1989. From the original collection of Estrid Faurholt and featured in the 1967 Book of Dolls and Doll Houses, with a story of its provenance: the doll, named Klara, was given to a little Danish girl in 1888 "with permission to take it out of the cupboard every Sunday to look at, not to play with. The little girl looked forward to this moment all week and she kept the doll until her death at the age of eighty".