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22" (56 cm). All wooden doll with carved facial features has slender facial modeling and elongated throat, swivel head, shapely torso, dowel jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, and ball-jointing swivel waist. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: (illegible pencil markings on back torso). Comments: French, circa 1865, the classic mannequin model served as the inspiration for the wooden body form of several French doll firms such as Bru. Value Points: important model in the study of the evolution of the French lady doll body with well-made articulation.