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Description
16" (41 cm.) Bisque shoulder head with oval face and elongated throat, cobalt blue glass eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with outlined lips, ears pierced into head, blonde mohair wig over cork pate, kid-over-wooden body with dowel-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, bisque lower arms, bisque lower legs with bare feet, lovely antique costume, undergarments, stockings, rose silk slippers, garland of flowers. Condition: generally excellent, right thumb tip restored. Marks: E.A. Rochard Depose Brevete SGDG (red ink inside shoulderplate). Comments: Edmund Rochard deposed his 1868 system for placement of Stanhopes or other optical systems inside the head or shoulderplate of a doll. The system was designed to appear as simply a jewelry item such as this gold painted necklace with ruby medallion in a coral and gold frame, but when viewed through the oval cut-out at back of the shoulder plate reveals a hidden microscopic image. Value Points: extremely rare poupee, quite beautiful as a jewel-decorated lady, and value-enhanced by the secret hidden presence of her Rochard image. The actual doll is shown in Theimer's Panorama of Parisienne Dolls, page 253.