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Description
19" (48 cm.) Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden
base with four wooden ball feet is a bisque-headed
clown with painted clown decorations,blue glass
paperweight inset eyes,open mouth with bisque
articulated tongue,pierced ears,two-color
three-dimensional wiry clown hair,carton torso and
legs,bisque forearms. He is wearing a vivacious
satin clown costume with hand-painted butterfly
designs and red satin shoes,and is holding an
intertwined metal chain in his hands. Movements
and Music. The clown stands proudly,holding the
magic trick chain in his hands,as though
demonstrating how he can untangle the chain (which
he never does,despite working and working).
Meanwhile he turns his head side-to-side,his
tongue teasingly at his lips,and then finally,he
sassily sticks out his tongue at his on-lookers.
One tune plays.Roullet & Decamps,Paris,circa
1890,the automaton appeared in the firm's catalog
as model #257,described as "Clown anneau". In fine
pristine condition,the clown is preserved in his
original box.