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Description
17" (43 cm). An untinted bisque swivel head is
attached to matching bisque shoulderplate with
kid-edging, portraying an adult woman. The doll
has brown sculpted hair in very elaborate curls
waved away from the face and captured in a
separately sculpted hairpiece of ringlet curls at
the back of the head. The doll has cobalt blue
glass inset eyes, modeled pierced ears, painted
lashes around the entire eyes, red eyeliner,
brown single stroke brows, aquiline nose with
accented nostrils, closed mouth with center
accent on lips, blushed cheeks. Her body is twill-
over-wood with dowel jointing at shoulders, hips,
knees and ankles, and she has bisque lower arms
and hands with defined palms, nails and knuckles.
The doll wears a lace dress, undergarments, and
leather shoes. Attributed to Dornheim, Koch &
Fischer of Germany, circa 1870. The doll_s unique
hair sculpture suggests the manufacturer_s aim of
offering alternate hair pieces for variations of
coiffure although few other examples of the doll
are known to exist and none of these have
alternate hair pieces. From the early collection
of Sylvia Brockman, the exact doll is pictured in
The Collector_s Encyclopedia of Dolls, Volume I
by Coleman.