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Description
18" (46 cm.) Standing upon a patterned gold
velvet-covered wooden base is a bisque-headed doll
with blue glass paperweight inset eyes,closed
mouth,painted features,pierced ears,brunette human
hair,bisque shoulder-plate,very shapely torso and
slender legs of adult female,bisque forearms. The
doll wears her richly detailed original costume of
Spanish tambourine player,and holds a tambourine
in one hand,and a fan in the other,Movements and
Music. Tilting her head from side-to-side,she
continuously shakes the tambourine,and
periodically brings the fan to her face. Merry
music,that lends the appearance to be in time to
her movements,accompanies. Leopold Lambert,circa
1890,the model appeared in the firm's catalog as
#40,named "Espagnole".