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Rare Biedermeier doll| see addendum. Presumably Kestner.
Without mark. Circa 1825.
L 56 cm.
Paper mache chest head with painted blue eyes and unusual heart-shaped topknot. Cloth body with flapping arms. White dress, knitted stockings, red cloth shoes. Age traces, head scrawled, hairstyle glued and retouched.
This doll shows great similarities to the heads depicted on the pattern sheets of Johann Daniel Kestner Jr. around 1830.
| Addendum 22.02.23: Breastplate with defects.
Literature : Christiane Gräfnitz, p. 52.
Provenance : Puppenstubenmuseum Erfurt.
Limit 190 €
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