🌹✨ Antique French Boudoir Doll – Poupée de Salon – circa 1920s–1930s | 32 inches (81 cm)

A truly exceptional and heavy French boudoir doll from the Art Deco golden era — one of the finest construction types, with a pressed felt face, sawdust-stuffed cloth body, and an utterly spectacular original beaded velvet hat. These poupées de salon were luxury decorative objects made for the most elegant French dressing rooms and salons.

✦ Details:

• Size: 32 inches / approx. 81 cm

• Weight: Heavy — sawdust-stuffed cloth body, solid and substantial

• Head: Pressed/moulded fabric face — a premium French technique

• Face: Superbly hand-painted — heavy-lidded dark eyes with kohl liner, arched brows, pale pink rosebud lips; serene, aristocratic expression

• Hair: Original blonde mohair curls, loose and natural

• Hat: Original black velvet hat with cream silk brim — entirely encrusted with intricate jet black glass bead embroidery in leaf and floral motifs — museum-quality millinery

• Hands: Composition hands only — fine defined fingers with traces of original pale pink nail paint

• Legs: Original cloth legs with black knit stockings

• Shoes: Original fabric gold/bronze flat pumps

• Body: Sawdust-stuffed cloth body — solid and heavy

• Dress: Original deep crimson/burgundy crushed velvet gown — dramatic ruffled Pierrot collar, puffed ruffled sleeves, white lace-trimmed hem with original white petticoat beneath — entirely original

• Necklace: Original period seed pearl/glass bead necklace included

✦ Condition:
Very good antique condition throughout. Mohair hair slightly loose as expected for age. Hat beadwork intact. Velvet gown rich in colour with light crushing consistent with age. Composition hands show minor age-related marks. An outstanding all-original survivor.

✦ Shipping:

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