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15" (38 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate, cobalt blue glass inset eyes, dark upper eyeliner, painted lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with center accent line, ears pierced into head, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, original wooden poupee body with dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, and with swivel ball waist. Condition: generally excellent, old repaint on wood of lower arms and hands. Comments: Leon Casimir Bru, circa 1867, with his distinctively-modeled deposed wooden body of that year. Value Points: fine quality of bisque and painting, wooden articulated body, beautiful early mauve gown with black velvet ribbons, undergarments, stockings, black kidskin slippers.