#11

Doll with Brown Eyes and Wooden Articulated Body
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$1,300
sold
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Description
4" (10 cm). Of thick paste porcelain with pink- tinted complexion and blushed cheeks, the doll has black hair arranged with center-part, and smoothly combed hair looped around the ears and arranged in long curls at the back of the head, unusual painted brown eyes, black brows, red and black eyeliner, closed mouth. Her carved wooden body has defined waist, dowel jointing at shoulders and hips, and dowel jointed porcelain lower arms and legs with orange painted slippers. Germany, circa 1850. From the Collection of Mildred Seeley.