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Description
21"(53 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder
plate with highly defined modeled bosom,brown glass
paperweight inset eyes,thick black eyeliner,feathered
lashes,brush-stroked brows with feathered details,rose blushed
eye shadow,accented nostrils and eye corners,closed mouth with
accent line between the lips and slightly upturned smiling lip
corners,impressed philtrum and dimples at lip corners and
chin,pierced ears,auburn mohair wig in arranged upswept curls
over cork pate,on original Bru kid bebe body of the Chevrot era
with hinged hips and carved wooden lower legs,bisque arms
from elbows with superbly sculpted fingers and hands.
Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose L (forehead) L
(head) Bru Jne No. 10 (shoulders) Bebe Bru...(paper label on
torso). Comments: the firm of Leon Casimir Bru,the bebe with
smiling poupee face was especially commissioned and costumed
to commemorate the 1895 society wedding of the railroad
heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough
(Spencer-Churchill family,the owners of Blenheim Palace in
Oxfordshire and first cousin of Winston Churchill.) Later the doll
was gifted to Consuelo's friend,Eveline Miles who had lived at
Woodstock House on the Blenheim Estate since 1880. The doll
has remained in the possession of the Miles family until this
time. A complete provenance is available to the new owner.
Value Points: superb doll with outstanding bisque and
painting,pristine condition,and wearing her perfectly preserved
original ivory silk faille gown from the Duchess of Marlborough
wedding party,bearing the couturier label of Maison Maggy Rouff
of Boulevard Haussmann in Paris who may have been the
designer of Consuelo's gown,and including multi-layered
undergarments,silk stockings,and ivory kidskin shoes signed
"Bru Jne Paris 10".