19" (48cm)( EXTREMELY RARE ANTIQUE FRENCH BISQUE CHARACTER,203,BY JUMEAU FROM HIS "SERIES FANTASTIQUE" Antique dolls at Respectfulbear.com

Bisque socket head with highly characterized features depicting a child with delightful broad smile, very deep brown glass paperweight inset eyes, sculpted laughter lines around the eyes, painted long curly lashes, dark eyeliner, brush-stroked and feathered widely- arched brows, nicely shaped nose with shaded nostrils, closed mouth in broad infectious smile with accented lips separated by a row of sculpted teeth, accented tongue and impressed laughter creases at sides and above the mouth, impressed philtrum dimple, separately sculpted pierced ears with coral bead earrings, auburn mohair wig over cork pate, French composition and wooden eight loose-ball-jointed body with paper ‘Bebe Jumeau, Diplome d’Honneur label to rear.
She is wearing original blue cotton sailor style dress with pleated skirt, underclothes, socks and original Bebe Jumeau brown leather shoes stamped 5 and with original paper "Au Louvre, Paris" label, and a straw boater/
the head incised 203, 5, red stamp DEPOSE, TETE JUMEAU, Bte SGDG and artist check mark.
Few examples of the size 5 model were made; in 1899 only 4 examples were listed in the Jumeau inventory. PLEASE LOOK The Jumeau Book by Theimer and Theriault,page 358.

Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 203 Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 10 (head) Jumeau Medaille dOr Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau,from his "series fantastique" created in the early 1890s as part of a very exclusive luxury line,produced only on special commission or for exhibition purposes; the cost of the 200 series characters was nine times that of a classic bebe. Value Points: an exceptional example of a joyful child with delighted laughing expression,having finest sculpting and lustrous bisque with dewy patina,signed Jumeau body,and superb ORIGINAL SEILOR COSTUME, STRAW HAT, JUMEAU SHOES.
19" (48cm) tall

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