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$13,500
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- Estimate
- $18,000 / $22,000
Description
18" (46 cm.) Bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulderplate, plump cheeks and full throat, brown glass inset eyes, delicately-painted lashes and brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with outlined lips, unpierced ears, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, all-wooden body with swivel waist, jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Adelaide Huret, circa 1865. Value Points: beautiful poupee wearing early gown in superb condition, probably from the workshops of Huret or Mlle Bereaux, although unsigned, and with early undergarments, bonnet, stockings, and ankle slippers in the Huret style. Ex-collection Huguette Clark.
Stuart's Take
Not only an extraordinary example by Huret, but comes with what is clearly its period gown and from one of the most esteemed collections in history, that of Huguette Clark. It's not always you see such an important doll come back to market just five years after a monumental auction, but this one does, from the collection of Sharon Jerome.