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Description
24" (61 cm.) Posed on one toe,upon a
velvet-covered wooden platform,is a bisque-headed
doll with brown glass paperweight eyes,closed
mouth,painted features,brunette human hair,bisque
shoulder plate,carton torso and legs in slender
female shape,with hinging below the waist,and
bisque forearms and hands. she is wearing a silk
and lace festival costume and is holding a brass
bell in one hand,and a black-bisque-head party
marotte in the other. Movements and Music. As
though delicately dancing about. she bends
side-to-side at the waist,half-pirouetting on one
toe,twisting her right wrist as though to ring the
bell,and then,turning her head to the left,she
lifts her left hand,waving the marotte in a
festive party manner. Music plays. Roullet &
Decamps,circa 1890,with commissioned portrait
bisque head from Jumeau. The one-toe dancer was a
popular object in the firm's line for some
time,and was presented as ballerina,tambourine
dancer or sometimes with a garland of flowers.