#302.1

French Bisque Bebe Jumeau, Incised Depose Mark, with Original Costume
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$6,500
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14" (36 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass paperweight inset eyes in deeply set eye sockets, painted lashes, brush stroked brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth, accented lips, pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose Jumeau 5 (incised on head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, circa 1885. Value Points: pretty bebe with rarely found signature, made for one year only, wears her original Jumeau couturier dress, leather shoes signed Bebe Jumeau Depose 5.