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Description
22" (56 cm.) All-wooden doll with tightly-fitted
swivel head,refined facial sculpting with
angular-shaped face,high cheekbones,aquiline
nose,defined chin,well-detailed ears,tinted blue
eyes and shaded lips of closed mouth,original
hand-tied human hair wig,on all-wooden body with
shapely torso,musculature definition of
ribs,swivel waist,ball and dowel jointing at
shoulders,elbows,wrists,hips,knees and
ankles,expressively carved hands,painted
complexion of face,upper torso and hands,fine
natural waxed finish to remainder of the doll.
Condition: generally excellent. Comments: the doll
is similiar to,but preceding,the deposed poupee
model of Marie Emmanuel Cruchet of 1852,having
less voluptuous shaping of torso,as necessitated
by the 1830 high-waist fashion,of which it is
dressed in an original gown with padded
bosom,along with undergarments and handmade
slippers. Value Points: very rare larger early
wooden poupee with handsomely carved
features,original finish,original costume.