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Description
17" (43 cm.) Porcelain shoulder head of adult lady with oval face and elongated throat,black
sculpted hair waved away from her face with details of stippling around her forehead,loose curls
onto her shoulders,and a pageboy coiffure captured in a modeled gilt snood with gilt bow at her
crown and gilt tassels at each side of her hair,blue upper-glancing painted eyes,red and black
upper eyeliner,black single-stroke brows,closed mouth,original muslin stitch-jointed
body,wooden hand. Condition: generally excellent,some fingers missing. Comments:
Germany,circa 1865. Value Points: beautiful lady with rare artistically painted coiffure,wearing
her fine original gown of stiffened embroidered muslin with blue and aqua silk under-dress and
trim,undergarments. Provenance: ex: Marianne Bodmer collection.