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Description
22" (56 cm). Of pink-tinted thick paste
porcelain, the doll features a hand-pressed
shoulderplate head with rounded facial modeling,
elongated yet thick neck, solid dome with black
painted pate, sculpted ears, painted dark blue
eyes with black pupils, black upper eyeliner and
brows, accent dots at eye corners and nostrils,
closed mouth with accented lips. The body is
French, of firmly stuffed muslin with shapely
female form, having leather arms and hands with
separately stitched fingers. The doll wears an
early green calico print gown with gigot sleeves,
tablier, undergarments, early black leather laced
shoes with tacked-soles, lace coiffe. Marked _Par
Brevet_ and _J.P._ From the porcelain works of
Jacob Petit, who registered the first French
patent for a porcelain doll head in 1845. Dolls
bearing that maker_s marks are extremely rare and
virtually unknown in this large size. Circa 1850.