
17" (43 cm). Pale bisque shoulder head with plump facial modeling and pale bisque, painted blue eyes with shaded detail, heavily modeled eyelids, black eyeliner, delicately painted lashes and brows, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth with pale accented lips, unpierced ears, blonde lambs wool wig over cork pate, French all-wooden body with dowel- jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. Condition: generally excellent, wooden body is appropriate and of the period, but not original gutta percha. Comments: Adelaide Huret, circa 1865. Value Points: very beautiful model of the signature French poupee with defined decorative glaze on lower eye rim, exquisite painting, wooden body and fine antique costume of the period.