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Description
38" (96 cm). Bisque socket head, blue glass
paperweight inset eyes, thick dark eyeliner
encircles the eye cut, painted lashes,
brushstroked brows with detail of modelling
and feathered highlights, accented eye
corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with
well-defined tongue tip between the accented
and shaded lips, pierced ears, brunette
human hair over cork pate, Steiner
composition fully jointed body, beautiful
antique costume. Condition: hairline from
crown rim to eye (visible inside head) with
professional overpaint. Marks: Bru Jne 15
(head) Le Petit Parisien (body). Comments:
Leon Casimir Bru, circa 1885. Value Points:
outstanding beauty and quality of bisque and
painting is enhanced by very rare large size.