Antique French Bisque Doll Automaton TLC Girl With Hoop Unis SFBJ France
Item History & Price
Offered for sale is this antique French bisque doll automaton - a girl with a hoop. This item is not currently working and there are some losses and damage. She is being sold as found and as-is. Automatons are not my area of expertise, so please bear with me! The feel with the winding key is that it is overwound and I've not investigated further, I don't want to break something I don't understand. I took the brass panel off the back of the base to take some pictures of the mec...hanism - there are lots of mechanics in the base. Manually pushing one of the levers in the base made her head turn left and right. The hoop rests on a friction wheel so clearly the hoop turns around. Please ask if you have any questions or would like a picture of a specific part. Please excuse the reflections in the pictures.
I put a can of soup in one of the pictures to give a sense of scale. The black base is just over 13 inches square. When she's standing upright the piece will be approximately 24 inches tall.
There are some hairlines around her neck and one hairline goes very slightly up onto her chin but it's very faint. The metal that goes up her back is bent, I’m not sure if it should be that way. Her legs are loose. I don't know the condition of the mechanism because I haven't tried to make it run. There is age wear to her clothing and to the velvet covered base, and some losses to the "grass" by the hoop. There may be other losses and issues that I am unaware of. Please see the pictures to get the best idea of the condition.
She's marked on the back of her head Unis, 301, and other markings as shown, and the winding key is marked "14".
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