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Description
17" (43 cm.) Pressed bisque socket head with very
distinctive portrait-like expression,blue glass
spiral-threaded eyes,dark eyeliner,painted
lashes,mauve-blushed eye-shadow and cheek and chin
blush,aquiline-shaped nose with shaded
nostrils,closed mouth,outlined lips,impressed
dimples at lip corners,pierced ears,original
blonde mohair wig over cork pate,molded hollow
("blown") leather body in classic bebe proportions
with dowel-jointing at shoulders,elbows,side-hips
and side-knees,well-defined fingers and toes.
Condition: generally excellent,a very fine nearly
imperceptible 1" line at forehead rim (under
wig,appears original),leather dent in
torso,original body finish. Marks: (see inset
photo of foot bottom). Comments: Pierre-Victor
Clement,who deposed the body for his
hollow-leather body poupee in 1867; the body for
this bebe model is constructed in the same
method,only having childlike proportions rather
than the taller and more slender lady body. Circa
1875. Value Points: extremely rare,no other bebe
model from Clement is known to exist,and having
stunningly beautiful bisque face,the doll is
preserved in an early wooden box along with an
assortment of her original handmade costumes of
the mid/late 1870s comprising two dresses,two
jackets,three bonnets,two pairs of shoes (one pair
signed C.C.,one pair stamped G),night shift and
split-leg drawers.