A very rare glazed china-headed Sèvres character doll

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A very rare glazed china-headed Sèvres character doll
modelled as a sombre child, with closed mouth, bright blue painted eyes, black lashes, pale brown brows and remains of blonde wig, on a jointed wood and composition body with pale blue and white sailor suit and hat - 5½in. 39cm. high, impressed Perette and with green oval Sèvres stamp dated 1917 inside head

See Colour Plate 5

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Sèvres produced dolls' heads during the First World War supposedly based on 18th Century designs

Lot Essay

According to The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Dolls by Dorothy, Anne and Jane Coleman, some experimental dolls were made at Sèvres in 1918 "in opposition to the 'German doll's head' that had inundated the European market before the war of 1914-1918".

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