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Description
17" (43 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden
platform is a bisque-headed boy with brown glass
paperweight inset eyes,painted features,open
mouth,teeth,pierced ears,have carton torso and
legs,bisque forearms. He is wearing a velvet boy's
suit and cap with silk shirt and tie,black shoes
and socks,and holds a metal bowl of sudsy water in
one hand,and wooden pipe in the other. Movements
and Music. After dipping the wooden pipe in the
sudsy water,he lifts it to his mouth and appears
to blow bubbles. The bubbles actually occur from a
bellows system hidden inside his torso which
creates a breeze,and hence,the bubbles. Music
plays and bubbles appear. Roullet & Decamps,circa
1900,with bisque head from Emile Jumeau. A
charming automaton with timeless appeal.