Portrait Lady with Brown Sculpted Hair

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15" (38 cm.) Bisque shoulderhead with brown sculpted hair arranged in elaborate curls, painted facial features, red and black upper eyeliner, brown single stroke brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth, blushed cheeks, pierced ears, fancy modeled and painted bodice with fancy bows, old muslin stitch-jointed body, bisque lower limbs, painted flat orange slippers, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1870. Value Points: rarity factors are brown hair, pierced ears, fancy bodice.