$21,000
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Description
17" (43 cm.) 17"h. overall. 4" head. Porcelain shoulder head portraying adult lady with oval face and elongated throat, slightly modeled bosom, brown sculpted hair with long loop curls in front of each ear, and a coiled topknot at the crest, with tendrils of curls onto the nape, old muslin body with blue leather lower arms, wearing antique patterned homespun gown, undergarments, stitched on slippers. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: (three lines with dot, inside shoulderplate). Comments: Royal Copenhagen, circa 1840, the doll head was shown in Faurholt's Book of Dolls and Dollhouses and she noted "it might very well have been the first [model] ever made in the factory".