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14" (36 cm.) Standing upon a tinplate-over-wooden-frame base with original painted finish to simulate ground-cover is a lady with wax-over-paper-mache head, blue enamel eyes, closed mouth, original wig in elaborately arranged braids and curls and decorated with cascading pearls, shapely carton torso and legs, and paper-mache hands whose fingers and wrists are sculpted to realistically pluck at mandolin strings, original coral and ivory satin gown with matching bonnet and appliqued gilt paper and Alencon lace trim. When wound, the lady glides forward, then turns to one side or the other, pauses, circles and glides again, all the while turning her head side-to-side and strumming the mandolin which has beautiful hand-painted decorations. There are two original brass labels on the base, "Theroude Paris" and "Brevete SGDG" indicating that Theroude had deposed his design. Excellent condition. Theroude, Paris, circa 1850.