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Description
17" (43 cm). Having bisque shoulderhead with
rounded facial modeling, very plump cheeks and
chin, sculpted eye sockets with heavy eyelids,
painted blue eyes with shaded outline of irises
and glazed highlights on lower eyes, black upper
glancing pupils, thick black upper eyeliner,
delicately painted lower eyeliner, painted
lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils and
eye corners, closed mouth with pale accented
lips, blushed cheeks and chin, unpierced ears,
lambswool wig over cork pate. The doll has all
wooden fully articulated body with jointing at
shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and
ankles. She is wearing early dimity cotton dress
with mauve leaf pattern, cording and pleating at
bodice, double ruffled sleeves over white blouse,
undergarments, leather slippers. The body is
stamped _Huret, 34 Boul. Haussman, Paris_. There
is some paint rubbing on original body finish.
Adelaide Calixte Huret, circa 1860.