$5,750
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Description
18" (46 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden base is a bisque-headed doll with blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, lushly-painted lashes, brushstroked brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with outlined lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, composition hands, wearing original costume of a country gentleman, and holding a hide-covered paper mache piglet with amber glass eyes in one arm, and a glass baby bottle in the other. When wound, music plays and he turns his head side to side and then extends his right arm to offer the bottle to the piglet; the piglet appears to leap forward in delight, and his ears, mechanically, wiggle back and forth. Condition: bisque excellent, costume a bit worn, mechanism and music function well. Marks: Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 4. Comments: Roullet et Decamps, the automaton was presented in the firm's early catalog, along with illustration, #295, names "Paysan et son Cochon". Value Points: delightful theme of a country gentleman feeding his pet piglet, with very fine quality of bisque. Included is a 9" hide-over-paper mache mechanical pig by Roullet et Decamps, with amber glass eyes which when wound, is designed to wobble forward (mechanism needs adjustment).