Pair, Rare French Cloth Art Dolls Depicting Russian Dancer and Pierrot by Konovaloff

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11" (28 cm.) and 15". Each is all cloth with stitch-shaped chiffon-covered face, painted facial features, elongated bodies in the salon-doll manner. Condition: generally excellent, some light wear to chiffon. Comments: the dolls were created in the studio of the Parisian milliner, Konovaloff in the post WWI years by his skilled seamstresses; this particular pair were acquired by Musee de la Poupee from the original owner who had been gifted them during the early 1920s. Value Points: very rare dolls include Russian dancer with painted brown side-glancing eyes, blonde floss hair in long braid, sewn-on red leather boots, and wearing beautifully-made silk gown with beaded center panel, lace-edged organdy undergarments, beaded necklace, and very elaborate metallic-fringed headdress with beaded trim; and Pierrot with artfully-painted upper glancing eyes with dramatically-painted eye accents and painted tear, wearing black silk Pierrot costume decorated with tulle ruffled collar and pom-poms, black skull cap.