An unusual solid pate shoulder-headed fashionable doll

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An unusual solid pate shoulder-headed fashionable doll
modelled as a child with closed mouth, bright blue painted eyes, unpierced ears, full round face, blonde wool wig, kid over wood jointed arms with bisque forearms and kid gussetted body - 10½in. 27cm. high, French circa 1870

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Although no fashionable dolls with kid bodies of this type are attributed to Steiner, this doll bears a striking resemblance to early Steiner Bébés with shoulder heads and bisque pelvises. The solid head, unpierced ears, sharp nose, short philtrum and bisque arms are similar characteristics. However both Huret and Rohmer produced dolls of this type with painted eyes and bisque forearms, but not with such a tiny mouth.