#51

German Porcelain Half-Doll "Lady with Purple Plume and Love Letter" by Dressel & Kister
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5" (13 cm.) Waist-up porcelain nude lady with elaborately-arranged coiffure in the 18th century style featuring clusters of ringlet curls and crowned with a curled purple feather, her arms posed away and holding a letter in her left hand which she appears to be reading. Marks: (blue bishop's staff stamp). Excellent condition. Germany, Dressel & Kister, circa 1912.