Ms. #490 is a lovely lorelei, probably by William Goebel. Although her upper half is that of a warm-blooded woman, her legs are covered with blue scales and end in finned feet. The earliest depictions of mermaids generally show them with this spilt tail, their scaly legs coiling like twin sea serpents. The stylized mermaid in the Starbucks logo and the statue of the Little Mermaid in the harbor of Copenhagen are examples of split-tail mermaids. Of good bisque and modeling, this undulating undine is 4.5 inches long and is unmarked.
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