Details
A papier mâché shoulder-headed doll
with brown hair wig over painted crown, the pink kid body with stitched fingers, dressed in original blue silk and brown velvet regional costume trimmed with metal braiding -- 13½in. (34cm.) high, circa 1850
See colour plate 18
with brown hair wig over painted crown, the pink kid body with stitched fingers, dressed in original blue silk and brown velvet regional costume trimmed with metal braiding -- 13½in. (34cm.) high, circa 1850
See colour plate 18
Further details
It would appear that these Sonneberg heads were imported into France, where the typical French kid bodies and clothes of fine materials were produced.