Kestner is known for its husky, healthy all bisque dolls like this one, as, for starters, they make a substantial presence on your all bisque collection shelf.  They are fun to hold, dress, pose and photograph, and their various looks and features make them fun and often challenging to collect.  Here we have a big, 8 1/2" girl with brown glass sleep eyes, closed mouth, chubby face and body, swivel neck and jointed at the shoulders and hips. 

It’s time for some fun with this jovial, all bisque googly with painted blue eyes, watermelon mouth, solid dome head with antique human hair wig, swivel neck and jointed at the shoulders and hips.  She has a darling, chubby toddler body with molded black, one strap shoes and blue socks. 

The gorgeous face of this early 886 Simon Halbig all bisque can light up a whole shelf in your mignonette collection, with her radiant, blue glass spiral eyes, her two square cut upper teeth peeking out from behind her open lips, palest bisque and delicate decoration of features, multi-stroke eyebrows, and antique, ash blond mohair wig of tight ringlets. She has a swivel neck and her body is jointed at the shoulders and hips, with long blue molded stockings and black, double-strap shoes.  

Adorable, all-bisque and oh, so French, is this 5” delicate mignonette, who is just marked with an incised “0” on her back.  Similar in expression to the serious “little bird faced” Sustrac all bisques of France, she does not bear the usual BTE mark of those dolls. She has blue enamel eyes, encircled by tiny painted lashes, a closed little heart-shaped mouth, palest bisque and a swivel neck, with her slim body with long graceful limbs jointed at the shoulders and hips. 

She wears a fine, antique silk frock in the classic French mignonette silhouette, antique cotton and lace undergarments (which are still stitched on), an antique blond mohair wig and a prim, flower adorned chapeau perched on top.  To accentuate her delicate bare feet, antique silk ribbons have been wrapped, ballerina-style, around her ankle area.  

Beautiful, brown/black bisque is the key to this richly dramatic, large-size all bisque, who is and early example from the Kestner firm. She has a round face with ethnic molded features, dark brown glass sleep eyes, a closed mouth with plump lips, a widely molded nose and her sparse, but original, tightly curled short wig.  

The head swivels on a robust bisque, barefoot body with lots of life-like molding on the torso and limbs, and it is jointed at the shoulders and hips with both hands in a cupped pose. Her cotton antique dress is so endearing with a cream background beneath a simple, linnear print in brown and tan, accented with red at the sash, collar and along the edges of the cotton bonnet. Her little bare bisque feet are lucky to wear the tiniest, fine quality, antique leather lace up shoes!

A sweet all bisque German googly (6") that looks very similar to the Hertel and Schwab 165. She has brown glass sleep eyes that glance to the side, a closed mouth with watermelon smile, original brown mohair wig and a stationary neck. She is jointed at the shoulders and hips and has blue molded socks with black molded Mary Jane style shoes. Her country costume is antique and features a darling, early print apron and underneath is her adorable, one-piece knit undergarment with lace trim.

This is how a doll can be simple and sweet, but also quite impressive at the same time!  We have a large (8 1/2"), early all bisque, so early that the hips and legs are stationary, but nothing is spared in the chubby molding of the skin and the curvy silhouette of this girl.  She has a round face with blue painted eyes, a demure closed mouth, stiff neck and her healthy arms are only jointed only at the shoulders.  Her hair consists of some wispy, blond mohair locks.