Doll with Wooden Articulated Body

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16" (42 cm). Having a pressed bisque swivel head with refined slender facial shape, elongated throat, on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate with highly defined sculpting of lower throat hollow and shoulder blades. The doll has almond-shaped brown glass enamel inset eyes, dark eyeliner encircling the eye cuts, painted lashes, brushstroked and feathered brows, accented eye corners and nostrils, closed mouth with pale outlined lips and center accent line upturned at the lip corners to suggest a tentative smile, pierced ears, and blonde mohair wig over cork pate. The doll has an all-wooden fully articulated body of deluxe nature, with dowel- jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, swivel jointing wrists, and extra swivel jointing at upper arms and upper legs. The costume is red woolen flannel suit with black soutache trim, over white cotton chemisette and sous-sleeves with delicate red embroidery, undergarments, leather ankle boots signed C.C., black flannel cap, and linen blanket with embroidery detail. A superb and rare portrait model, unsigned, but probably Pierre-Francois Jumeau, circa 1867, the model may be one of his models prepared for the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle.