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Description
14" (36 cm.) Bisque shoulder head with pale complexion,plump
facial features,cobalt blue glass enamel eyes,dark
eyeliner,painted lashes and brows,accented nostrils,closed
mouth with accented lips,unpierced ears,blonde human hair over
cork pate,French poupee body of kid-stretched over wooden
form,wooden arms with dowel-articulation at shoulders and
elbows,cupped wooden hands,antique silk
gown,undergarments,leather slippers. Condition: generally
excellent,finish on hands worn. Comments: body style attributed
to Arnaud,whose deposed patent drawings are shown in The
Encyclopedia of French Dolls by Theimer,page 23. Value Points:
beautiful bright-eyed poupee with rarer body.