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Description
18" (46 cm.) Standing upon a burgundy velvet-covered base is a bisque-head doll with brown glass paperweight eyes, painted long curly lashes, brush-stroked brows, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with shaded and outlined lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, bisque forearms. Condition: generally excellent, music and mechanism function well. Marks: L.B, (key) Depose Tete Jumeau 4 (head). Comments: Leopold Lambert, circa 1890, the little girl holds a woven basket of flowers and berries, and when wound, music plays, the little girl turns her head side to side, and alternately lifts her hands, her left hand lifting the lid of the basket to reveal a little all-bisque doll that twirls around and around. Value Points: the beautiful doll wears her original silk costume and bonnet, socks and shoes, presenting a delightful vignette, and has original paper tune label indicating the music is "Cendrillonette".