This fantastic fashion lady by Galluba and Hofmann is as big as she is beautiful. A little later in the Edwardian period, she has sheer tinted stockings instead of textured stockings, slim heeled pumps in place of low bootines, and she lacks the ribbed undergarments found on some of her earlier sisters. Although still shapely, she is slimmer, without the exaggerated curves typical of the earlier fashion ladies. Her face is especially exquisite with large blue-grey eyes and parted lips, her graceful gestures display her delicate and detailed hands, and a molded necklace encircles her slender throat. Of the finest bisque and modeling, she is 10.5 inches tall, with no visible marks. She has been redressed and her mohair wig is a replacement. Under her shirt is an old auction label from Sotherby's York Avenues Galleries label (she was Lot #376), but there is no date.
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