ASSORTED GERMAN PARIAN BISQUE HEAD DOLLS, LOT OF FIVE, shoulder heads, hand-painted facial features including blue eyes, stuffed bodies with china arms and four with china lower legs and brown/black painted shoes, painted blonde molded hair in elaborate styles two examples with pierced ears and earrings including one example with parted and wavy hair attributed to Conta & Bohme Porcelain Factory, and remaining example with an Empress Augusta hair style and attributed to Alt, Beck & Gottschalck; includes four lady examples and a boy, boy with a kid-leather body and reverse of shoulder plate impressed "GERMANY"; black dressed example with molded upper blouse and with a bow, each leg with impressed herringbone pattern, attributed to Dornheim, Koch & Fischer, Empress Eugenie hairstyle with hair net. Each with vintage clothing and undergarments. Second half 19th/early 20th century. 10" to 13 3/4" H.

Very good overall condition with expected wear, one example lacking original foot and with a poorly simulated replacement, blue velvet dressed example with earrings having a glued arm and a foot tip flake, boy with roughness to hands, some scattered repairs. Clothing and accessories in good overall condition with expected imperfections including some with deterioration and losses.