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Description
30" (76 cm.) A clown with highly-characterized
papier-mache head is seated upon a wooden stool
with one foot outstretched as though for
balance,and his right hand clasping a wooden stick
upon which he is juggling a ball. He has painted
white clown complexion and painted clown
decorations including one diamond-edged eye and a
rosy nose tip,brown glass eyes,articulated
eyelids,open mouth with painted teeth,wiry
two-color clown hair,and wears his original
diamond-patterned silk clown costume over carton
torso,papier-mache legs and lower arms. When
wound,he nods his head in a circular motion,then
turns to the left while gesturing with his left
hand as though to draw the attention of onlookers.
Then,turning to the right,he performs his juggling
act,moving his right arm side-to-side while the
ball appears to move up and down on the stick.
Throughout music plays,his tongue moves in and out
in a whimsical happy manner,and his eyelids blink.
Condition: generally excellent,mechanism and music
function well. Comments: Vichy,Paris,circa 1900.
Value Points: its size and complex motions
indicate its luxury production from the prestige
Vichy works,in highly-desirable state of originality.