Porcelain Doll with Wooden Articulated Body

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6 1/ 2" (16 cm). Of thick paste pink-tinted porcelain, the shoulderplate doll has short black sculpted curly hair, painted blue eyes, black brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth and blushed cheeks. The doll_s carved wooden body has a defined waist, elongated torso, dowel jointing at shoulders and hips, and dowel-jointed porcelain lower arms and legs with painted orange slippers. Germany, circa 1850. From the Collection of Mildred Seeley.