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Description
18" (46 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged
bisque shoulder plate,slender elongated face and
full throat,painted facial
features,deeply-sculpted eyes with shaded blue
paint,white eyedot,thick black upper
eyeliner,heavy eyelids,fringed brows,accented
nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with
outlined lips,brunette hand-tied human hair wig
over cork pate,slender wooden fully-articulated
body with dowel-jointing at shoulders,elbows,hips
and knees,metal hands. 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,with beautifully-painted
features,fine original signed body,and exquisite
silk costume that is likely original.