$3,500
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Description
20" (51 cm.) bed. Seated in her well-fitted maple wood bed with acorn finials, lace canopy top and rose-silk quilt and pillows is a bisque head doll with blue glass paperweight eyes, lushly painted lashes, dark eyeliner, rose-blushed eyelids, brushstroked brows, closed mouth with shaded lips, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig, carton torso containing mechanism, wire upper arms, paper mache lower arms. Attached to the bed is a brass frame with acrobat doll. When wound, the child raises upright and extends her arms toward the tiny doll which swings teasingly in the opposite direction. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: F.G. 7. Comments: French, circa 1890, doll by Gaultier. Value Points: the intricate mechanism contains two completely separate works plus a separate crying bellows, designed to work in unison, and enhanced by luxury quality of the doll, bed, and bed fittings.