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Description
20" (51 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden base is a bisque-headed doll with very expressive crying features, very narrow blue glass eyes, dark eyeliner, brush-stroked brows, long painted lashes, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth modeled as though open in a wide crying expression, shaded lips, row of painted teeth, sculpted tongue, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, bisque forearms. The doll is holding a bisque doll head in her right hand with dangling body below, and a hankie in her left hand; a matching little all-bisque boy stands alongside. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 211 (head) L.B. (key). Comments: Leopold Lambert, circa 1892, with art character bisque head especially commissioned from Emile Jumeau; when wound, the doll sequentially turns her head, lifts the "broken" doll up and down, and then lifts her hankie as though to wipe away her tears. Value Points: luxury presentation of the wonderful doll-themed automaton, with fine antique costumes, and wonderfully functioning movements and music.