#187

Early Carved Wooden Doll with Unusual Leg Construction
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22" (56 cm.) Carved wooden socket head with painted and defined hair,moustache and beard,blue glass enamel inset eyes,well-defined ears,on original wooden body with dowel- jointing at shoulders,elbows,and knees,and the unusual characteristic of jointed left hip only. Condition: good,split at right side of head,old retouch to complexion and hands. Comments: Continental,late-18th century. Value Points: unusual and mysterious leg jointing of early wooden doll.