Daisy, an extremely rare Franz Schmidt character doll mould 1263 with very pale grey painted eyes outlined in darker grey with black line above, closed mouth, slightly questioning eyebrows, jointed body and underclothes - 19½in. 50cm. high, circa 1912, impressed Deponirt F.S. & C 1263/50 (grey marks above and behind left ear, body slightly washed, one finger missing)

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Daisy, an extremely rare Franz Schmidt character doll mould 1263 with very pale grey painted eyes outlined in darker grey with black line above, closed mouth, slightly questioning eyebrows, jointed body and underclothes - 19½in. 50cm. high, circa 1912, impressed Deponirt F.S. & C 1263/50 (grey marks above and behind left ear, body slightly washed, one finger missing)

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Lot Essay

Franz Schmidt of Georgenthal is known to have bought his heads from the nearby Simon and Halbig porcelain factory at Grafenhain, the similarity of this mould, both in facial features and painting details, to others made by Simon and Halbig for Kammer and Reinhardt in their 100 series, suggests they were sculpted by the same hand.

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