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Description
25" (64 cm.) Thick paste porcelain shoulder head with plump face and shoulders, black sculpted hair waved away from face into soft pageboy curls and held by sculpted black hair ribbon, exposed ears, painted facial features, muslin body, paper mache arms to above the elbows, wearing wonderful antique woolen dress, undergarments, stockings, leather shoes, necklace, and carrying little toy ball. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1875, the same model as the modeled-hair bisque doll known as "Alice in Wonderland", here in porcelain with rare black hair for this model.