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25" (64 cm.) Thick paste porcelain shoulder head with pink-tinted complexion, perfectly oval face and elongated throat, black sculpted hair drawn around her face forming into two wide poufs at the sides and into a coiled braid at the back of her head, painted small blue eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single-stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, old feed sack muslin stitch-jointed body with Boott Mills stamped label, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1860. Value Points: very fine lustrous patina enhances the well-modeled facial features, especially of eyes and with rare coiffure. Ex-Estelle Johnston Collection.