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Description
16" (41 cm.) Bisque shoulder head with plump rounded face,painted
blue downcast eyes in deeply-set sockets,decorative glaze at lower
eyes,heavy eyelids with delicately-painted lashes,arched feathered
brows,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with outlined
lips,unpierced ears,blonde lambswool wig over cork pate,hollow
(so-called "blown") leather body in exact style and size of
classic Huret gutta percha body,with dowel-jointing at
shoulders,elbows,hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent.
Marks: Poupee Brevete SGDG (body stamp). Comments: Adelaide
Huret,circa 1860,on deposed poupee body of Pierre-Victor Clement.
Clement,a maker of finely crafted leather shoes,deposed a system
of creating doll bodies that would be made in a similar manner as
shaping shoes. His doll body was a veritable copy of the Huret
poupee body,but likely due to its luxury expense was a commercial
failure,thus very rare today. Value Points: very beautiful Huret
model with finest artistic painting,on rare perfectly-preserved
Clement body with original signature,wearing antique white pique
gown with soutache embroidery,undergarments,leather ankle
boots,and with three additional antique gowns included.