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Description
19" (48 cm.) Solid domed paper mache shoulder head, oval face and elongated slender throat, painted black pate with stippling detail of hair, painted facial features, blue eyes, black upper eyeliner, feathered brows, closed mouth, blushed cheeks, kid poupee body with shapely torso and legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1840, French. Value Points: superb original finish on the early doll with beautifully painted face, wearing original well-detailed nun's habit and coiffe. Ex-collection Madame Petyt.