SALEROOM ANNOUNCEMENT - one leg has a crack.

A fine and rare German bisque shoulder-head doll with elaborate hair and moulded necklace, with pale blue upward glancing eyes, dark blue iris rim, black eyeliner, three stroke blonde eyebrows, exposed ears with moulded blue earrings, pale blonde painted and moulded hair swept off the face, held in eight strands of gold beads and hair comb, the neck with three rows of moulded gold painted beads with a blue stone at each shoulder, stuffed body with bisque limbs, moulded and painted black heeled boots, recent pink dress and underclothes —17 1/2in. (44.5cm.) high