- Estimate
- $8,000 / $10,000
20" (51 cm.) Very solid paper mache shoulderhead with painted complexion and facial features, shaped double chin, painted blue downcast eyes, single stroke brows and upper eyeliner, closed mouth, heavily-rouged cheeks, remnants of original wig, firmly-shaped slender cloth torso with wood dowel through the body into head, slender cloth arms with separate fingers, cloth over wooden upper legs and slender painted wooden lower legs with carved high-heeled shoes. Condition: generally excellent, complexion somewhat aged. Comments: French, circa 1780, wearing very specific costume of the French Revolution era, 1789-1793, designed to minimize the luxurious silks of the earlier royal 1700s, comprising red and white striped cotton gown with fitted bodice trimmed in striped border of green and black, lace edged fichu, original lace fitted cap, fitted fingerless gloves on hands. Value Points: very rare doll in historically important costume, is wonderfully-preserved in her original lidded box with early paper and hand-painted designs. The doll is featured in the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Whyel and Susan Hedrick, pp. 22/23.