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Description
42" (107 cm.) Pressed bisque socket head with well-defined features, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted curly lashes, brushstroked and feathered brows, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with beautifully-sculpted and shaded lips, dimpled chin, pierced ears, brunette periwig over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: F. 16 G. Comments: Gaultier, circa 1882, early period block letter model. Value Points: extremely rare grand size 16, indubitably created as an exhibition model, of which few examples are know to exist, wearing superb antique ivory silk chef's costume including chef's cap, and with silk stockings and silk brocade shoes.