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Description
31" (79 cm.) Paper mache shoulderhead with oval face and elongated strong throat, black sculpted hair with unusually deep sculpting, looped in front of the fully-sculpted ears and forming into a tightly coiled braid at the back, unusually large black enamel eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, lightly feathered brows, strongly-shaped nose with impressed nostrils, closed mouth with very full lips, kid poupee body with gusset-jointing at hips and knees, stitched and separated fingers, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: attributed to Andreas Voit, circa 1840, for the French market. Value Points: an unusually expressive and strong face framed by very thick detail of sculpted coiffure, rare large eyes.