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Description
16" (41 cm.) Solid domed papier-mache shoulder head,painted brown hair with brush-stroked
detail,brown enamel eyes with heavily-modeled eyelids,painted eyeliner and brows,aquiline
nose,accented nostrils,closed mouth with accent line between the lips,pink kid poupee body with
shapely torso and straight limbs,sculpted papier-mache hands with separately-posed fingers.
Condition: generally excellent. Comments: for the French market,circa 1860,the unusual
substance of the papier-mache lends an impression of carved wood to the finished doll which is
wearing her original multi-layered habit of St. Francis nuns including rosary.