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18" (46 cm.) Bisque socket head with full cheeks, large blue glass paperweight inset eyes with spiral threading and dark outer iris rims, dark eyeliner, painted dark curly lashes, mauve blushed eye shadow, brush-stroked and feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with pale outlined lips, separately-modeled pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, composition and wooden eight-loose-ball jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 8 (head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1878, his early portrait bebe. Value Points: the rare early portrait bebe wears her original (frail) aqua silk couturier costume created in the studio of Ernestine Jumeau, with matching aqua velvet bonnet, undergarments, turquoise bead earrings, socks, and aqua shoes with rosettes impressed "E. Jumeau Med. d'Or Paris".