SALEROOM ANNOUNCEMENT - Sadly this doll has been broken across her front shoulder-plate and the estimate has been amended to £600-800.

A rare German mid 19th century pink tinted china shoulder head with Royal provenance, with blue painted eyes, white highlight dot, pink lips, dark pink lip detail, nostrils and dot to inner corner of eye, exposed ears, unusual brown painted and moulded hair with strands painted onto the face and short curls all over head, stuffed body with bisque hands and unusual string and hook mechanism on legs, so you can unhook and allow her to sit down, original blue and white striped silk dress, dusty pink cloak/coat, straw and pink silk bonnet and underclothes, attached to the dress a note ‘Doll given to Elizabeth Sprague by Princess Royal the Empress Frederick, when both where children 1840-50’, in original cardboard box with similar note on lid —11in. (28cm).