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Lot Essay
Bébé Gourmande was designed for food to pass through the mouth and out through the feet
Details
A rare Bébé Bru Gourmande
with open mouth showing tips of teeth, brown yeux fibres, shaded brows, pierced ears, skin wig over cork pate, bisque shoulder plate with nipples and kid body with bisque limbs, dressed in original pink silk lace-trimmed frock and bronze leather shoes with cut out soles -- 17½.in. (45cm.) high, Circa 1880, impressed with Circle Dot, shoes marked B (restoration at base of neck at back, small firing crack behind knee, tongue missing, wig replaced), 1883
See Colour Plate 2
with open mouth showing tips of teeth, brown yeux fibres, shaded brows, pierced ears, skin wig over cork pate, bisque shoulder plate with nipples and kid body with bisque limbs, dressed in original pink silk lace-trimmed frock and bronze leather shoes with cut out soles -- 17½.in. (45cm.) high, Circa 1880, impressed with Circle Dot, shoes marked B (restoration at base of neck at back, small firing crack behind knee, tongue missing, wig replaced), 1883
See Colour Plate 2
Special notice
VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.
Sale room notice
This lot is not illustrated on colour plate 2.