A highly characterized Chinese man with composition head, darkened complexion, very defined sculpting of cheeks bones and temples, has brown glass eyes, leather eyelids, real brows, long moustache and queue, hinged mouth, teeth, carton torso and legs, composition hands, and is posed upon a velvet-covered wooden base. An internal system of tubing that begins with a hole in his hand that attaches to the pipe creates the smoking illusion. He wears a very rich pale yellow silk robe with embroidered dragon and fantasy scenes, wide collar, brown silk trousers and shirt, sash, black cap, and rose silk shoes, and carries a wooden opium pipe in his right hand. He has the decorative fleur-de-lis key of Vichy. Movements: he turns his head far to the right, then to the center, his right arm brings the pipe upward and he draws upon the pipe, moving lips up and down, pauses as though satisfied, then exhales, and repeats the motion. His eyes blink throughout. By Gustav Vichy, France, circa 1880. 30" (76 cm). Six or more movements.