Offered here is a most stunning Francois Gaultier enfantine fashion. Starting with her large tri-color eyes with black iris surrounded by a ring of olive green, then another band of royal blue, her face has endless depth with meticulously painted lashes and brows, an outlined closed mouth, and pale, smooth bisque as backdrop for a her lovely expression. Her blond mohair wig is secured with a royal blue silk hairband that extends in back to tie around the top of her braid.

She has pierced ears, a swivel neck on bisque shoulder plate, and youthful, chubby bisque arms with detailed fingers and nails. Her never undressed body is a clean and firm leather with gussets at the hips and knees. Because of the fragility of her original, royal blue silk dress, she remains dressed and underneath you can see her original underwear including a hoop supporting her skirt. The costume, although very frail, displays beautifully and could be reinforced by a skilled fabric restorer. This girl is a little treasure.

Provost Period Huret Fashion

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Sometimes a simple costume can make a doll become something entirely different than the expected, and that is what happens with this magical Huret Provost era fashion doll in her ballerina attire (18"). Already a superb doll and example of this type of fashion, she has the most lovely facial expression and such smooth, pale bisque that she stands out from her peers.  

She has large, painted blue eyes and a closed mouth, refined features and an opulently styled, sandy blond mohair wig that she wears for her performance. She walks on stage in her vintage net skirt/tutu that has a dramatic quality due to the appliqued flowers and glass stones attached to the underskirt of the top tulle layer. With her antique cotton, lace trimmed bodice, antique under slip and pantaloons, newer white stretch stockings, antique ivory ankle-tie slippers, black velvet ribbon choker, colorful sash and flower details, she takes us to the place where Edgar Degas would get the inspiration for his masterpiece ballerina paintings.

Her Huret body marked on the upper back, is completely of jointed wood, exept for the slim, signature metal hands for this beginning decade of the 1900's. A truly unique presentation that is most effective with floor-level stage lighting!

Dressed in her original costume from a province in France comes this attractive F.G. Fashion (15") girl. Her face is striking with her ocean blue enamel eyes that are surrounded by long, sweeping painted lashes and multi-stroke brows. She has a closed mouth with accented lips, pale bisque, pierced ears and her original blond mohair wig circled by her long braid.

She has a swivel neck and her original, firmly stuffed cloth torso and straight legs, with kid leather arms, minor soiling on the exposed hands. Having quite a vibrant costume of multi-striped silk trimmed in lace, a contrasting, collar, and a full underskirt of red silk with black velvet stripes. Footwear consists of fine, dainty leather boots with pumpkin color cotton stockings. Her head dress is a simple, double lace panel that frames her face beautifully. 

Always exciting when a Huret fashion doll appears on the market available to acquire, as the search for these enfantine beauties is constant whether you are looking for your first Huret or looking to advance your collection. It just so happens that this lovely girl (17 1/2") is ready to travel to a new home where she will fulfill her next collector's dreams. She is of the bisque shoulder head type and has the typical watery blue painted eyes and soft, rose colored lips set on an almost white pale complexion.

Her robust, equally pale bisque arms have incredible detailing of the fingers and nails and her gusseted kid leather body is in excellent, clean, firm condition.Her cream, heavy cotton dress with a red, brown and green floral pattern is antique and from her 1860 era and her undergarments have matching detail of tucking and trim which is always a special feature. Matching the trim on her dress, she wears a pair of antique, brick red crocheted socks.

Her boots are quite worn, but still holding up and they have that wonderful side panel of stretch material that is so Huret. An antique straw hat tops her head and she travels with a small, red sac de voyage that carries a small bisque doll on the bottom layer and has an extra storage cavity on top. (The latch is broken.) At the bridge of her nose, a inherent, tiny brown spot has been covered.

Petite Gaultier Fashion in Ceremonial Costume

$2,650.

At only 11” this Francois Gaultier fashion is fresh from Paris and making an astonishing impact due to her fully original and detailed wedding or communion costume that has a provincial feel to its design. Her petite but powerful visage has enormous blue enamel eyes, lush lashes and multi-stroke brows, a closed mouth with accent line between the lips and pale bisque that is a swivel head on a bisque shoulder plate. She has her original blond mohair wig peeking out from under her dramatic head dress of lace, net, silk ribbon and flowers of fabric and wax.

The early fashion dolls of the 1850's and 60's were so endearing as most of the time they depicted a young girl or debutant by way of their youthful proortions and shorter hemlines. Rohmer fashions are in this category and whether in china or bisque, their young, pensive faces are easy to recognize. This fair girl ( 16") has cobalt blue enamel eyes, a bisque head with cup and saucer swivel neck, mounted on a bisque shoulder plate with the original metal stem that can be seen on the outside of her original cork pate.  

The body is in clean and lovely condition, with just some loose stitching and areas of reinforcement at some of the seam lines. Most of her her blouse, camisole, pantaloons, slip and leather boots are antique, while her hoop and stockings are not. Made with antique fabric in the young style of her day is a wide skirt dress of a small print cotton that has a removable, oversized collar. Her ingenious hat that resembles duck bills is an artisan masterpiece of pressed and curved straw with velvet trim.