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Description
20" (51 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden base is a bisque-headed doll with dramatized crying features, very narrow blue glass eyes, dark eyeliner, brush-stroked brows, long painted lashes, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth modeled as though open in crying expression, shaded lips, row of painted teeth, sculpted tongue, pierced ears, brunette mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, bisque forearms. The doll is holding a bisque doll head with blue glass eyes and original silk Polichinelle hat in her right hand while her left hand holds its dangling body and hankie. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well. Marks: 211 (head) L.B. (key), original paper tune label with LB insignia. Comments: Leopold Lambert, circa 1892, with art character bisque head especially commissioned from Emile Jumeau; when wound, the doll sequentially turns her head, lifts the "broken" doll parts up and down, and then lifts her hankie as though to wipe away her tears. Value Points: luxury presentation of the wonderful doll-themed automaton, with (somewhat frail) original costume on both doll and Polichinelle, original paper tune label, especially melodious tune, and rare original "tear" on face.