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Description
20" (51 cm.) Porcelain shoulderhead of plump-faced woman with very full cheeks and throat, black sculpted hair in centerpart drawn around her face and forming into finger curls with unusual flat-cut bottom edge, painted blue upper-glancing eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single stroke brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with center accent line, deeply sloping shoulders, muslin stitch-jointed body, slender kid arms. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1860. Value Points: rare model with most pleasing facial shape and unusual hair curls, wonderful antique costume.