French Bisque Poupee with Rare Body Style and Fine Early Costume

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17" (43 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate, blue glass spiral-threaded eyes, thick dark eyeliner, delicately-painted lashes and brows, mauve-blushed eye shadow, accented nostrils, closed mouth with pale outlined lips, ears pierced into head, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, stretched-kid-over wooden torso, lower legs and upper arms, "baggy" kid upper legs over wooden forms, bisque forearms and hands. Condition: generally excellent, one finger broken at knuckle. Comments: French, circa 1867, the doll was presented in luxury Parisian doll shops including that of Terrene. Value Points: beautiful doll with rare body style, wearing fine antique costume of ice blue silk skirt with demi-train, fitted matching hip-length jacket with patterned silk faille, leather boots with signature, undergarments, woven reticule, and with earrings and decorative hair comb.