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Description
17" (43 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulderplate, large blue glass enamel inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, delicately-arched brows, mauve-blushed eyeshadow, ears pierced into head, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, all-wooden fully-articulated body with ball swivel waist, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: D. Comments: Leon Casimir Bru, early model of his smiling poupee, and his deposed poupee body of 1867. Value Points: especially beautiful example of the early poupee in superb original condition.