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Description
22" (55 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged
bisque shoulder plate,blue glass spiral-threaded
enamel eyes with darker blue outer irises,dark
eyeliner,painted lashes,mauve-blushed eye
shadow,lightly-feathered brows,accented
nostrils,closed mouth with accented lips,pierced
ears,brunette human hair in elaborate coiffure
over cork pate,French wooden lady body with
shapely torso and derriere,dowel-jointing at
shoulders,elbows,hips and knees and pivot-jointing
at mid-thighs and wrists. Condition: generally
excellent,hands have light old retouch. Comments:
Pierre-Francois Jumeau,circa 1870,the wooden
articulated body was mentioned in the firm's
advertising beginning in 1867 available in 9 sizes
of which this was size 6; by 1876 it appears to
have been made in only three smaller sizes. Value
Points: luxury early-period wooden-bodied poupee
with exquisite modeling and painting of
portrait-like face.