#165

Lady Doll With Grape-Trimmed Snood
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Description
16" (40 cm). Of fine white porcelain with oval face and slender elongated throat, the lady doll has black sculpted hair captured within a gold lustre snood with purple lustre ruffled edging and a cluster of grapes at the crown. She has large blue painted eyes with upper glancing black pupils and white eyedots, red and black eyeliner, single stroke brows, aquiline nose, closed mouth with center accent line. The body is muslin with stitch-jointing and leather hands. Her white dotted Swiss gown has a large collar, and she has undergarments and black heeled shoes. Marked _6_ (or _G_) inside shoulder plate. Circa 1870. From the Collection of Mildred Seeley.