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Description
20" (51 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden base is a bisque-head doll with highly-dramatized features depicting a laughing child, brown glass eyes, dark eyeliner, brushstroked brows, long painted lashes, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth in wide beaming smile with row of painted teeth, pierced ears, original blonde mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, bisque forearms. A miniature toy Polichinelle dangles from her left hand and a pocket watch is held in her right. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well. Marks: 211 (head) L.B. (key). Comments: Leopold Lambert, circa 1892, with art character bisque head especially commissioned from Emile Jumeau to depict this childhood scene; when wound, the doll sequentially turns her head, delightedly lifts the Polichinelle up and down as though in play, and alternately looks at her watch. Value Points: luxury presentation of the wonderful doll-themed automaton, with original silk brocade costume, original wig.