Let's welcome an outstanding enfantine girl from the multi-decade line of French Fashions of the Huret firm, this one being the glass-eyed version with rare pierced ears! Mlle's eyes are a glistening blue with lightly stroked eyelashes, pale brows and a hint of shadow on her lids. This balances the pale blush of her cheeks on her pristine bisque and the subdued rose stain on her lips. Please note, while being enchanted by  her beauty, that her left eye pupil is a hair lower than the right, a factory irregularity.

 Her head and shoulder plate swivel and she has the signature Huret indentation at the center of her collar bone. Her long braided antique wig is of a soft blond mohair and there is plenty of hair to work with for some creative hairstyling. The body is a high quality, French wooden example with full jointing for posing, even the wrists, and the original condition is actually excellent except for the right thumb that is missing.

The possibilities for dressing this young lady of the 1860's lean towards the debutant sillhouette of a shorter, full skirt, a v-shaped wide bodice that pinches in at the waist and abundant upper sleeve detail. This is what she is wearing in a midnight blue silk with pale checkered lines and it is expertly made of antique fabrics and trims. Everything else about her is antique including her light wool cape in a whisper of peach color, her velvet and straw chapeau, her multi-layered cotton undergarments that are initialed “JM” on the waistline of the petticoat, and her light brown, lace-up leather boots.

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( Thumb of right hand is repaired well). Her shapely, gusseted leather body (at hips and knees) is very sturdy.  Because of the fragility of her original, royal blue silk dress, she now has a second, excellent garment to model while keeping the original silk one nearby.  The white dress you see her in is an antique,  early pique dress with hand sewn detail on the sleeves and bodice.

Seldom seen on the market is this rare, French E.B. Fashion with distinctive facial modeling. This was the alternate face made by Barrois at the same time as the E.B. Fashion with extreme Asian features, with both having a similar austere mood.

Her pristine, gussetted leather kid poupee body has leather over wood joints at the shoulders with long, graceful pale bisque arms and finely detailed hands. Her perfectly fitting, antique A-line dress is of cream wool with red silk and cord accents has a similarly adorned antique hat. Undergarments and petite, leather lace up boots, for this petite beauty are also antique.  

She has a swivel neck on bisque shoulder plate. her body is all kid leather and her original undergarments are all delicately trimed in lace. Even her tiny slippers are original! For fear of damaging her costume, it was not removed, however her body parts all feel intact due to their lack of exposure. And of course, the undergarments underneath are original as well.

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. 

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.