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Description
18" (46 cm.) Earthenware head with flanged neck, sculpted brown hair with well modeled hair in casual bangs and short curls, narrow blue glass sleep eyes, smoky eye shadow, painted lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils of broad nose, closed mouth modeled as though open with beaming smile and row of sculpted teeth, tongue tip, muslin body, composition limbs, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Gladdie copyright by Helen H. Jensen Germany. Comments: designed by American artist Helen Jensen, circa 1925, the doll was produced in both bisque and earthenware in German factories. Value Points: excellent detail of modeling enhanced by artistic painting on the very expressive child.