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Description
16" (41 cm.) Arranged upon a velvet-covered base is a gilded wooden arm chair upon which is seated a bisque-head doll with blue glass paperweight inset eyes, richly-painted lashes and brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with outlined lips, pierced ears, brunette mohair wig over cork pate, carton torso and lower arms and legs, wire upper arms and legs, embroidered velvet dress. When wound, music plays, her head moves up and down and her hands flit to and fro, realistically, as though knitting. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism functions well, music a bit spottily. Marks: Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 5 (and artist checkmarks on head). Comments: Roullet et Decamps, circa 1890, the automaton appeared in the original company catalog as #256 named "Bebe Tricoteur" (Child Knitting). Value Points: especially beautiful face on the automaton with gentle home-scene activity.