20" (51 cm.) Posed upon a flat red-velvet covered platform is a bisque-headed doll with blue glass paperweight eyes, painted dark curly lashes, brush-stroked and feathered brows, accented nostrils, rose blushed eye shadow, closed mouth, accented lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, bisque shoulder plate and lower arms, carton torso that contains clockwork mechanism, carton legs, one posed with pointing toe, the other with bent knee and foot in air. When wound the doll pirouettes, periodically kicks foot, moves head in realistic manner, and shakes the tambourine she holds in her left hand, music plays. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well. Comments: Gustav Vichy, circa 1885. Value Points: the rare automaton wears her original Moroccan silk costume with decorative jewelry and beads, has most appealing movements, two tunes with original paper tune label indicating "Polka du Colonel" and "Les Yeux Bleu Valse".