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- $5,000 / $7,500
Description
23" (58 cm.) Posed en pointe upon a velvet-covered large wooden platform is a ballerina with bisque head, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, closed mouth, beautifully-painted features, brunette mohair wig, and having a shapely lady torso with bisque shoulderplate, long slender shapely legs, bisque forearms, wearing superb original silk and lace ballerina costume ornamented with soutache designs that are repeated on her knit stockings, floral coronet, silk ballet slippers. When wound, she pirouettes en pointe, moving her left leg forward and backward in elegant sweeps, while inclining her upper torso side-to-side and moving arms up and down, in classic ballet poses, while music plays. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Roullet et Decamps, circa 1890, with bisque head from Emile Jumeau, marked "Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 3". Value Points: an especially luxury example of the popular ballerina automaton theme is beautifully preserved.