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Description
19" (48 cm.) Standing upon a velvet covered base
is a bisque-head doll with amber brown glass
paperweight eyes,dark eyeliner,richly-painted
lashes and brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth
with outlined lips,pierced ears,blonde mohair wig
over cork pate,French carton torso and legs,wire
upper arms,bisque forearms. She is wearing her
original magenta silk costume fashioned in the
workshops of Lambert overseen by Eugenie
Lambert,and holds a little all-bisque doll in her
right hand and a hair-brush in the left,as though
about to comb her doll's hair. When wound,the
presentation is heightened by the movement,as the
girl alternately lifts the doll,then the
brush,while nodding and turning her head as though
inspecting her workmanship; music play. Condition:
generally excellent,some fraility to original
costume,mechanism and music function well. Marks:
Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 4 (doll) (original
paper label indicating tune "Les cloches de
Corneville" on underside). A very beautiful and
original French automaton with enchanting
movements of special interest in a doll milieu.
French,Leopold Lambert,circa 1890.