Rare Early Paper Mache Doll with Original Body

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14" (35 cm). Paper mache shoulderhead with unusually shaped face. defined double chin, sculpted and painted hair with overall curls and swirling tendrils of hair onto the face, painted blue eyes with white eyedots and heavily modelled eyelids, brushstroked brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, hand-stitched early muslin body, pale blue leather arms with stitched separated fingers. Condition: generally excellent, few craze lines on shoulderplate. Comments: circa 1840. Value Points: wonderfully preserved early character-faced paper mache with superbly detailed hair and artfully painted features, early costume.