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French Porcelain Patented Doll by Jacob Petit
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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.