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Description
28" (71 cm.) Bisque socket head with very full cheeks, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, lushly-painted lashes, brushstroked and feathered brows, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with outlined lips, separately-modeled pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Depose Jumeau 13 (incised, and artist checkmarks on head). Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Jumeau, circa 1884, the model was made for one year only. Value Points: exceptionally fine quality of the gentle-faced bebe with finest quality bisque and sculpting including impressed chin and cheek dimples, beautiful early wig, original body and body finish, and wearing original cotton dress, lace ruffled bonnet, undergarments, stockings, shoes.