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Description
23" (58 cm.) Bisque socket head with very full cheeks and chin, blue glass paperweight inset eyes with heavily-modeled eyelids, thick dark eyeliner, painted dark lashes, brushstroked and multi-feathered brows, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with very full shaded and outlined lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: A 11 T. Comments: Andre Thuillier, circa 1884. Value Points: exceptional beauty of the rare bebe is achieved by deep modeling and artistic painting of features, original body and body finish, and wearing factory original aqua silk dress with Alencon lace trim, and brown velvet panel, matching bonnet, undergarments, stockings, black velvet boots by Alart impressed with full figure of a doll.