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Coy...

            Beneath the boughs where petals fall,
She walks unseen, so soft, so small.
A whispered breeze, a blushing hue,
The cherry blooms bow just for you.
Her gaze avoids, yet hearts ignite—
A fleeting lady in morning light.

Spring has finally sprung - at least on some days - where I live, and a few Sundays ago, after seeing some blossoms start to appear on some trees, I went out a few Sundays ago to capture the cherry blossoms under the beautiful deep azure blue skies that only really take on this hue during a short period of the year.  I took some of my bears with me, but I also slipped in a couple of my half-dolls, including this newly acquired German one from the 1920s.

This lovely half-doll is a little different to most others I have in my ever expanding collection, for she is only a head and a neck.  Her detailing is very fine, with beautiful blue eyes and lips painted in a red cupid's bow.  She has her raven tresses set in a stylish (for the time) bob of Marcelled Waves, affixed with a red Spanish comb, a fashion which dates her to between 1923 and 1925.  Acquired from a dear friend in Dorset who finds me such treasures, she is still attached to her original pin cushion which hides beneath a cape of antique ribbon and lace, which my friend made especially for her to replace the tattered remnants of her original cape.

The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century usually with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs.  Occasionally they created examples like this with just a head and neck.  These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner.  Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan.  They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers.  In this case, we know she is a pincushion topper, because her pink satin brocade pincushion still sits firmly beneath her stylish new antique lace and ribbon cape.

A cherry blossom, also known as a Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of trees in the genus Prunus or the Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Wild species of the cherry tree are widely distributed, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They are common in East Asia, especially in Japan. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not cherry trees grown for their fruit. The cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.       
   

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Coburg (show map)

Taken on: August 10, 2025

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/8.0, 1/250 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	6.2mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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