#312

Three German Portrait Ladies in Original Regional Costumes by Baitz
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Description
16" (41 cm.) Each has art-plaster sculpted head of adult lady with oval face posed in very expressive manner, long slender throat and modeled bosom, artistically-painted face with side-glancing eyes, closed mouth, smiling expression with row of painted teeth, mohair wig with coiled braid around her head, bisque arms, two are attached to wire armature base and the third has shaped cloth body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Baitz (marked on costumes or shoulderplate). Comments: Lilly Baitz, circa 1920, from a series of fashionable lady’s sculpted by the artist and produced in her own studios. Value Points: the smiling ladies are each wearing original folklore style costume.