22nd Feb, 2024 12:00

The Important Private Antique Doll Collection of Austin Smith and Margaret Harkin - Part 1

 
  Lot 92
 

92

A fine German bisque shoulder-head lady doll with flowers in hair

Sold for £460
Estimated at £300 - £400


 

A fine German bisque shoulder-head lady doll with flowers in hair, possibly Dornheim, Koch & Fischer, fine features with blue painted eyes with white highlight dot, red eyelid line, narrow sharp nose, small slightly smiling mouth painted with slight gap, brown painted single stroke eyebrows, exposed earlobes, blonde painted and moulded hair swept back from the face forming a chignon at the nape, pink and white bisque flowers in her hair falling down the left side of her hair on top of glazed blue and white tassel or scarf, stuffed body with bisque limbs, black painted boots, white dress printed with pink stylised flower, lace collar and white cotton underclothes —18in. (46cm.) high (flowers well restored)