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17" (43 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden platform is a bisque-head girl with brilliant blue glass paperweight inset eyes, painted features, open mouth, teeth, pierced ears, carton torso and legs, bisque forearms, wearing a lovely lace and silk dress with floral-trimmed lace coiffe. She is holding a metal bowl of sudsy water in one hand, and a bubble pipe in the other. When wound, music plays and she dips the pipe in the sudsy water, and then lifts it to her mouth and appears to blow bubbles. The bubbles actually occur from a bellows system hidden inside her torso which creates a breeze, and, hence, the bubbles. Condition: generally excellent, music and movements function well. Marks: Depose Tete Jumeau 2 (head) (original paper tune label under the base). Comments:. Roullet & Decamps, circa 1900, with bisque head from Emile Jumeau. Value Points: the delightful traditional child play is realistically presented, and enhanced by beautiful bisque face and costume.