Doll with Gold Head Band

Live Auction

20" (51 cm). Of untinted porcelain with rounded facial modeling, full cheeks, slightly elongated throat, short black sculpted hair in center part with nicely-painted stippling around the forehead sides. The hair is pulled backward behind the fully modeled ears and is held by a gold head band at the crown. The doll has large blue painted eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with center accent line, blushed cheeks. The body is commercial Steuber style with sewn-on red stockings and black leather boots, and the doll wears a blue patterned silk dress with lace collar, and undergarments. Circa 1885. From the Collection of Mildred Seeley.