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Description
18" (46 cm.) Bisque socket head,painted facial features,deeply-
sculpted eyes with shaded blue paint,thick black upper
eyeliner,painted short curled lashes,fringed brows,accented
nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with outlined lips,brunette
mohair wig over cork pate,slender wooden fully-articulated body
with swivel waist,dowel-jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips and
knees,metal hands,beautiful antique costume and bonnet. Condition:
generally excellent. Marks: Huret 58 Rue de la Boetie (incised on
back wooden torso). Comments: Maison Huret,during the epoch of
Elisa Prevost,circa 1910,her poupee with re-styled artistic model
head and body reflected the fashionable mode of the early 20th
century,and according to Leo Claretie,the French toy and doll
historian of that era,she was "one of the persons who contributed
to the development of artistic dolls in 1907." Value Points: an
especially appealing example of the Prevost-Huret poupee,with
beautifully-painted features and fine original signed body.