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Description
13" (33 cm). Having a pale bisque swivel head
with rounded facial modeling on matching bisque
shoulder plate with complicated bisque locking
mechanism that allows the head only to turn from
side to side in a realistic manner (rather than
360 degrees as most dolls do); the head is
adhered with a jute string that is locked into
the cork pate. The doll has dark blue cobalt
enamel eyes, delicately painted lashes and brows,
accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth
with accented lips, unpierced ears, blonde mohair
wig over cork pate. Her body is French kid
fashion with shapely waist, gusset-jointing at
hips and knees, kid-over-wooden upper arms,
bisque forearms with exquisitely shaped and
painted fingers. The doll wears an early costume
comprising linen pinafore with handmade scalloped
edging, white cotton blouse, undergarments,
Charlotte bonnet, leather slippers. Marked _F. 1
G._ in block letters on back shoulder plate.
Circa 1861, based upon the 1861 patent of
Adelaide Huret, the head was made in the
porcelain works of Francois Gaultier and bears
that company_s early signature.