RETIRED "LADY JANE" BY THELMA RESCH AND PATRICIA LOVELESS**NOW ON SALE
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This is "Lady Jane" a French Victorian porcelain doll by Thelma Resch and dressed by Patricia Loveless. I can honestly say that she is the most gorgeous, elaborate and valuable doll I have ever had and it's difficult for me to part with her! She is from the Designer's Guild Collection and one of the Imperial Gemstone Collection. She has a porcelain head that is moveable, breastplate, arms, hands, legs and feet with a soft cloth weighted body and wire armature for posing her limbs and she is very heavy at over nine pounds. She is a standing doll and comes with her custom stand that I'll describe in more detail later in this description. She is also 32 inches tall and has even been featured in newspaper articles. She has a full head of dark brown hair with it's original hair net still on. It is styled in ringlets all the way around from her center part and is held back from her face on each side with pale pink satin ribbons. Lady Jane has a pale complexion with hand-painted brown eyebrows, big round brown eyes with real upper eyelashes, pink cheeks and pale pink lips in a small closed mouth smile. She wears gold drop earrings with rhinestones in the stud and a pink stone in the middle of the ornate drop of the earrings. These match the broach she is wearing at the top of her bodice, which in addition to the rhinestone and pink stone it has a white faux pearl hanging from the middle of it. Now, to try to give her dress and entire ensemble justice... Lady Jane wears a long dress of heavy pale pink brocade that starts with a stand-up crocheted lace collar that has pale off-white ribbon woven all the way around it. Then the bodice has an embroidered lace inset over the pale-pink material of the dress. This U-shaped inset is surrounded by a U-shape of satin rosettes of off-white, beige and pale pink ending at her shoulders with rosettes tied with off-white satin ribbon. Below these rosettes hangs a four inch layer of off-white crocheted lace. Her belt of pale pink satin ribbon peeks through this hanging lace and ties in a big bow in the back. The dress also has long mutton sleeves that are puffed at the top with a four inch layer of the off-white crocheted lace hanging over the top of them and her tight cuffs are adorned with more lace and ribbon going down to her wrists and have more satin rosettes in off-white, beige and pale pink on them and tied at the ends with off white ribbon bows. The sleeves are hemmed in the off-white crocheted lace also. Hanging from each side of the middle of Lady Jane's waist are two loops of white faux pearls that are attached to her waist again at the side of her waist with off-white satin ribbon bows. Next to these loops of pearls are two other strings of faux pearls that end with a pearl-teardrop. In the very center of her skirt is a ten inch oval inset with numerous satin rosettes of off-white, beige and pale pink surrounded by white and beige sequins, embroidered flowers with tiny faux pearls that ends in a point of little pearl teardrops. Her skirt actually splits about four inches from the end of this ornate inset and the pink material angles to each side where it has a two inch row of off-white crocheted lace going all around the skirt with tiny white faux pearls in the lace. Underneath that row the pink brocade material continues with rosettes edging the split of the skirt going down to the very bottom where a final row of tiny off-white crocheted lace goes all the way around the hem. Under her skirt she wears a slip of white netting that ends in two layers of white scalloped embroidered lace all the way around it and then a white cotton slip decorated with pleats, ribbon and three layers of lace around it's hem. Under that slip she wears two more layers of white netting to keep her skirt full before she has on her white pantaloons that have three pleats and are edged with white lace adorned with a bow of pale pink ribbon with three pale pink flowers in the center surrounded by green leaves. She is wearing off-white lace stockings that are embroidered and fit into her pink ankle boots that have a pale pink satin bow on the toes and have scalloped edges that have white faux pearls acting as buttons to close the boots. Lady Jane also carries a pink brocade parasol that is 16 inches long but does not open and it is adorned with the same colored rosettes as her dress with strings of tiny faux pearls and ribbons around it's wooden stem. Her pink brocade hat goes on here head at an angle and is adorned on the top with a beige ribbon bow, white, peach colored and dusty pink flowers. To top it off it has lace under the brim and crocheted lace hanging down from the brim and two large white feathers on the top. This elaborate ensemble is finished off with an attachable pink brocade train with a bustle that hooks on to her dress with three hooks. From these hooks there are strand and loops of the tiny faux pearls that hang down the bustle. The sides of the train have six pleats that have off-white satin ribbons with loops of pearls at each pleat. At the end of these pleats it has a three inch row of off-white crocheted lace adorned with the tiny white faux pearls again and the hem is pleats of the pink brocade all the way around the bottom and sides. In the middle of the train, there is another ornate adornment of white, and beige sequins surrounded by white embroidery and tiny white faux pearls. At each end of this piece are bunches of the white, beige and pink satin rosettes and ribbons. This matches the design on the front of her skirt but is an inch longer than that one. Her stand has a piece of printed brocade on it in coordinating colors with the outfit and has a row of pink trim around it with a row of off-white crocheted lace all the way around it. Lady Jane is a picture of Victorian charm and opulence and is number 310 of a closed worldwide collection of 2000 dolls made especially for Home Shopping Network. She is the first in the series of the Imperial Gemstone Collection and is signed by Thelma Resch on the back of her neck. Now, for the most amazing feature: all of the dolls made by Thelma for the Imperial Gemstone Collection have a genuine hand faceted diamond mounted in the first "o" of the word Collection on the bottom of her right foot. Lady Jane originally sold for $5,000 but I don't have her original box or COA but she does come wearing her original wrist tag and picture of her to assist you in posing her correctly and a personal note from Thelma Resch describing Lady Jane and her life. Because I don't have the COA or original packaging I am selling Lady Jane for just $659.65 ***NOW ON SALE $353.65 plus $110.51 shipping since she is so heavy and has so much that comes with her.
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