$6,500
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
13" (33 cm.) Seated upon a velvet-covered base with wooden ball feet is a bisque head lady with swivel neck on bisque shoulder plate, blue glass eyes with spiral threading, dark eyeliner, painted lashes and brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with outlined lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs in seated pose, wire upper arms, bisque forearms. Condition: generally excellent, little chip on left earlobe, music and mechanism function well. Marks: 2 (head). Comments: Vichy, circa 1882, when wound, the lady turns her head side to side, and moves her right arm up and down as though strumming the guitar. Value Points: beautiful vignette, the lady with original silk costume, and original wooden guitar; having paper tune label on underside listing two tunes, "La Princesse des Carraire Mazurka" and "Gilette de Narbonne Valse"; the internationally acclaimed operetta. Gillette de Narbonne, was first presented in 1882.