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Description
9" (23 cm.) Each with paper mache shoulder head and painted facial features, carved wooden hands and feet, elaborate "shell" costume which is created by overlapping tiny shells whose variant colors suggested fabric designs, and posed on original matching base. Including lady with black sculpted hair elegantly waved from her face and with high-peaked coiffe, long gown and holding a spool of flax; and man with short blonde bobbed hair, with glazed hat and holding a shell-shaped lobster. Condition: very good, some shell loss. Comments: French, circa 1850. Value Points: beautifully-designed costumed dolls and elaborate original bases, along with a wooden doll chair with silk upholstery and shell borders.