#150

Doll With Wooden Body by Pierre-Francois Jumeau
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$8,500
sold
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20" (51 cm). Having a pressed bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate, almond shaped gray glass enamel eyes with darker outer rims, dark eyeliner encircles the eye sockets, painted lashes, lightly feathered brows, mauve blushed eye shadow, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth with accented lips, pierced ears and blonde mohair wig over cork pate. The lady doll has an all wooden-body with shapely torso, dowel- jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, and swivel wrists and swivel upper thighs (right thumb tip and fingers and thumb of left hand are broken at knuckle). She wears a black velvet jacket with silk fringe trim, gray light-woolen skirt, undergarments, leather boots, stockings, straw bonnet, and fur muff. Incised '5' on right shoulder. Pierre-Francois Jumeau, circa 1870.