The firmly-stuffed all-brown-leather doll has shaped leather face features well-defined aquiline nose, with painted eyes layered beneath,painted lashes,brows,and lips of closed chin and tiny mouth,elongated throat,modeled bosom,defined neck,with cut-out eye sockets,applied pupils,painted brows,black wiry hair, back of head leather seam under the wig,softly-stuffed brown leather body wuth
separately stitched thumbs.
She is wearing her original costume of silk and transfer printed cottons,wrapped turban and jewelry.
Condition: generally excellent.
Comments: for the French market,late-19th century,the doll was designed to represent a native of Martinique that had been a French colony since 1636. An article about the dolls appeared in the French journal L'Illustration at that time. Very rare to find model with excellent construction details and imaginative design, is well-preserved. Only a few of these fine early dolls have been located and their maker remains a mystery.

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