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Description
20"(51 cm.) Standing upon a red velvet covered box is a bisque-head child with brown glass
paperweight eyes,beautifully painted features,closed mouth in a wide beaming smile with row
of painted teeth,pierced ears,brunette human hair over cork pate,carton torso and legs,wire
upper arms,bisque forearms. She proudly holds a gilded wooden bird cage is which is perched
a red feathered bird (although the cage in actually attached to the dolls torso by a hollow
metal rod through which the animation occurs) and holds a bunch of cherries in each hand.
Condition: generally excellent,mechanism and music function well. Marks: LB (key) Tete
Jumeau Bte SGDG 205 (doll). Comments: Leopold Lambert,circa 1895 with commissioned
character bisque head from Jumeau. When wound,the doll turns her head from side to
side,gleefully smiling,as though in anticipation of the pleasure of feeding the bird. She lifts
her right arm and extends the cherries to the bird who eagerly flutters about in its cage. Value
Points: a perfectly achieved vignette,the rare character model face perfectly suited for the
happy occasion,the original silk costume featuring a cherry design,the delightful musical tune
creating the sense of the bird song.