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Description
24" (61 cm.) Bisque socket head with strongly-defined oval-shaped face,large brown glass paperweight inset eyes,thick dark eyeliner with glazed highlights,dark painted curly lashes,rich dark rose eye shadow,thick brush-stroked and feathered brows,shaded nostrils of rounded tip nose,closed mouth modeled as though open in very wide beaming smile with defined tongue and row of beaded teeth,impressed dimples in cheeks and above upper lip,separately-modeled pierced ears,brunette hand-tied human hair wig in long braids over cork pate,French composition and wooden fully jointed body,antique burgundy silk and velvet dress with matching velvet bonnet,undergarments,maroon stockings,French leather shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 201 (incised) Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 11 (and artist checkmarks on head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau,circa 1892,from his "Series Fantastique". Only two examples of this extremely rare doll are known to exist today. (See pages 159-160 of this catalog for more information about this remarkable early art character series). Value Points: probably the rarest art character doll existing today,its rarity rivaled only its exemplary sculpting,characterization,artistic painting,and by its very fine original state of preservation. From the private collection of the late Violet Mackemull of Bethesda,Maryland,where the doll resided for nearly a half century.