#141

20" French Automaton "Little Girl with Basket of Flowers" by Lambert
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$7,750
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Description

Standing upon a gold velvet covered wooden base, is a bisque-head doll holding a basket of flowers. The doll has blue glass paperweight eyes, closed mouth, blonde mohair wig, carton torso and legs, bisque hands, and is wearing her original (frail) silk dress and wire-framed red lace bonnet lavishly decorated with flowers. The doll's bisque head has hidden chips at the base of the neck rim. A wicker basket is supported by a metal rod from the doll's torso, but appears as though she is holding it with her left hand. In her right hand is a small bouquet of flowers. There is an original program tune on the underside indicating "La Czarine Mazurka". The key has LB symbols and the doll is marked Depose Tete Jumeau.

Movements: She turns her head from side to side, leans forward to sniff the flowers in her right hand, then lifts the lids of her basket to show the flowers in her basket. Music plays. Circa 1895.