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Description
17" (43 cm.) Standing upon a golden textured velvet-covered platform is a bisque head lady with blue glass paperweight inset eyes,closed mouth,lovely painted features,pierced ears,blonde mohair wig,having bisque shoulder plate attached to carton torso with defined female shape,slender paper-mache legs,bisque forearms. She is wearing her original ivory silk and lace dress with low-cut bodice and defined waist,slippers,bonnet,and is holding a silk fan and an elaborate gilded ormolu lorgnette. Movement and Music. She inclines her head to the left,slightly glancing upward,while lifting the lorgnette to gaze more closely at some nearby scene. Then,perhaps a bit scandalized by what she has seen,the lady turns to the right,and lifts her fan,briskly fanning herself six times. One tune is heard,"Mandolinata",according to the original paper tune on the base. Music and movements function well. Leopold Lambert,circa 1890,the automata is unusual in that it depicts an adult lady rather than a child. The head is marked "Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 1" and was created by Jumeau for Lambert. The elegant,yet amusing,vignette scene is similar to a larger paper-mache model of ladies on a park bench created by Vichy/Triboulet some years later.