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$16,000
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- $12,000 / $15,000
Description
17" (43 cm.) Porcelain shoulderhead with delicately tinted complexion, painted blue eyes with shaded iris coloring, thick dark eyeliner, delicately-painted all-around lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with center accent line, unpierced ears, blonde lambswool wig over cork pate, all-wooden body with shapely torso, dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Adelaide Huret, circa 1865. Value Points: early porcelain poupee with beautiful complexion and painting of eyes, wooden articulated body, and wearing beautiful antique gown of polished cotton with printed bluebird design, undergarments, cream kidskin shoes.