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Description
11" (28 cm.) Arranged upon a painted tin metal platform with three spoked wheels is a girl with paper-mache swivel head,enamel eyes,nicely painted features,slightly parted lips,double row of teeth,blonde mohair wig,paper-mache torso and legs,kid arms with separated fingers. She is wearing an early simple green silk dress with cap and carries a small bouquet of flowers.Movements. The wheeled hidden platform glides forward and in circles,while the girl turns her head briskly from side-to-side and moves her arms up and down. Attributed to Theroude,Paris,circa 1850.