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Description
22" (56 cm). Pressed bisque socket head, blue
glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner
encircles the eyecut, painted lashes, mauve
blushed eyeshadow, brushstroked and multi-
feathered brows, accented eye corners, shaded
nostrils, closed mouth with shaded and outlined
lips, separately modelled and pierced ears,
blonde mohair wig over cork pate, French
composition and wooden eight-loose-ball-jointed
body with straight wrists. CONDITION: Generally
excellent. MARKS: 10 x (incised) Jumeau Medaille
d'Or Paris (body). COMMENTS: Emile Jumeau, circa
1880. VALUE POINTS: Very beautiful shy-faced bebe
has superb quality of bisque and deeply sculpted
features with impressed dimples on chin and lip
corners, and below the nose, delicately blushed
cheeks and eyeshadow, original body and body
finish, original Jumeau white cotton dress with
dainty tucks and cutwork, ruffled bonnet, leather
boots.