Rare French Bisque Character, Model 233, as Crying Boy

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21" (53 cm.) Solid domed bisque socket head, sculpted boyish hair in side-swept manner, narrow blue glass inset eyes, brown painted lashes with dot highlights, slightly modeled brows with feathered detail, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth modeled as though wide open in crying expression, sculpted tongue and two rows of porcelain teeth, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body, nicely costumed in purple velvet Sunday best suit. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: SFBJ 233 Paris 8 (head) Bebe Jumeau Diplome d'Honneur (body). Comments: SFBJ, circa 1910. Value Points: rare model with extraordinary detail of sculpting, especially crying crinkles around the eyes and mouth, very fine quality of bisque.