263. Nine Early German Porcelain Miniature Dolls in Original Costumes 3 1/2" (9 cm.) Each has porcelain shoulder head with black sculpted hair, painted facial features, muslin body, with sculpted blue bonnet and painted features, along with
porcelain limbs. Condition: generally excellent, Comments: Germany, circa 1880, presented for the French market,
her five black-haired porcelain children, the shoe arranged
likely intended as theatre or opera dolls, included is early storage box pencil-labeled "Poupees mignonettes". Value
upon a multi-layered felt cushion designed for use as pen-
Points: the dolls wear elaborate fantastical costumes depicting a theatrical scene, including harlequin. $1200/1800
wiper. Excellent condition of the charming nursery rhyme vignette. Circa 1880. $300/500
264. Petite German Porcelain Lady Doll and Her Two Children
262. German Porcelain Lady Doll with Fine Antique Gown
7" (18 cm.) Porcelain shoulder head of lady with sculpted
17" (43 cm.) Solid-domed porcelain shoulder head with oval
snood, with stippling details of hair around the forehead,
face and elongated throat, black painted pate, painted blue
painted facial features, muslin body, bisque limbs, wearing
upper glancing eyes, red and black upper eyeliner, single-
lovely ivory satin gown, undergarments. Included is
stroke brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, brunette
a smaller black-haired china doll wearing her original
mohair wig, firmly-stuffed kid body with lady shape,
organdy gown, undergarments and blue woolen hooded
wooden lower arms with spatula-shaped hands. Condition:
cap, and a porcelain-head baby with wrapped taufling in
generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1865. Value
lace-edge blue wool. Excellent condition. Germany, circa
Points: beautifully-painted features, wearing wonderful
1875, a delightful miniature family. $400/600
black hair waved from her face and captured in a modeled
antique gown with delicately-printed floral sprigs, of finest tiny hand-stitching, undergarments, cream hand-stitched kid slippers. $500/800
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