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Description
19" (48 cm.) Standing upon a rose-velvet-recovered
wooden platform is a bisque headed girl with brown
glass paperweight inset eyes,artistically painted
features,closed mouth,pierced ears,blonde mohair
wig,carton torso and legs,restored bisque forearms
She is wearing her original somewhat-worn silk
and lace dress with maroon silk ribbons,matching
bonnet,shoes and socks. She is holding two
maple-wood sticks (baguettes) with velvet-covered
handles and,positioned on a wire frame in front of
her so as to appear to be flying in the air,is a
chenille-velvet-covered hoop (coronne). Movements
and Music. The girl turns her head from
side-to-side as though watching the movements of
her hands and the hoop. She flicks her wrists
side-to-side,trying to capture the hoop onto the
sticks,while the hoop moves back and forth,as
though she is playing the French traditional
garden game jeu de grace. Music plays,En revenant
de la Revue according to the original tune label.
Leopold Lambert,circa 1886,the automaton appeared
in the Lambert catalog as #8 Bebe Jeu de
Grace,with rare model bisque head marked "Depose
Jumeau 4". The automaton gracefully depicts the
popular 19th century garden game,and its movements
and music function well.