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Description
22" (56 cm). Of fine white porcelain with slender
oval face, elongated throat and sloping
shoulders, black sculpted hair waved away from
sides of face, with cluster of curls at the
forehead and a loosely woven braid at the back of
head. Her ears are partially sculpted and
pierced, and she has pale blue eyes with heavily
modeled eyelids enhanced by red and black upper
eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils,
closed mouth with center accent line. Her muslin
body is stitch-jointed with leather arms and
legs. Wearing a green taffeta gown with tulle
sous-sleeves, straw bonnet, undergarments. Circa
1870. From the Collection of Mildred Seeley.