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Description
18" (46 cm.) Arranged upon a velvet-covered wooden platform is an acrobatic balancing bar with fringed velvet trim,and posed on one toe on the bar is a bisque-head girl with glass eyes,closed mouth,mohair wig,and wearing silk acrobatic costume. She holds a garland of flowers in her hands.Movement and Music. Combining the skills of ballet dancing and tightrope walking,the doll moves back and forth across the bar,on tiptoe,twirling,and moving arms and garland up and down. Attributed to Roullet et Decamps,circa 1910.