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Description
22" (56 cm.) Bisque socket head, plumply modeled cheeks, large blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, dark painted lashes, rose blushed eye shadow, brush-stroked and multi- feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with defined space between the outlined lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair, French composition and wooden fully- jointed body. Condition: generally excellent, head and body not original to each other but appropriately sized and styled and of the same era. Marks: J - 10 (incised, head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Joanny, circa 1890. Value Points: rarely found model with appealing character expression, fine quality of painting, antique mariner costume.