A bisque-head character girl with sculpted crying expression, narrow blue glass eyes, closed mouth modeled as though wide open with sculpted tongue and upper row of teeth, brunette mohair wig, carton torso and legs, and bisque hands, is standing upon a velvet covered wooden platform. She wears patterned rose silk dress with lace and paillette trim, velvet bonnet, rose silk shoes and stockings, and holds a lace-edged hankie in her left hand, and the strings to a Polichinelle puppet in her right; the Polichinelle dangles from its puppet strings. The Polichinelle has paper mache head and traditional silk jester costume. The head is marked 211,the key is marked L.B. Movements: the girl turns her head to the left, nods, and tries to lift the dangling figure of Polichinelle, then to the right and brings her hankie to her crying face. The automaton appeared in the original Lambert catalog named Bebe au Polichinelle, No. 47. The 200 series bisque automaton heads, commissioned exclusively from Jumeau by Lambert, and designed to accentuate the activity of a given automaton (in this case, a little girl crying over her fallen Polichinelle) were later produced as a series of dolls by the Jumeau firm, and are among the rarest antique dolls to be found today. Leopold Lambert, France. Circa 1895. 20" (51 cm). Four movements. One tune.