$5,750
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
18" (46 cm.) Bisque socket head with cardboard hood has an alternate face on either side, each face with blue glass eyes and painted features, one face depicting a laughing child with broad grin and row of porcelain teeth, the other a crying child with mouth modeled wide open, having sculpted tongue and upper row of teeth, brunette mohair wig, French composition and wooden fully-jointed body. Marks: 7. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Jumeau/SFBJ, circa 1900, depicting the art character models 203 and 211. Value Points: rare double-faced model has wonderfully expressive faces and fine quality of bisque, original body, and wearing fine antique dress and leather shoes signed "Bebe Jumeau Depose 7".