A French bisque head and bisque shoulder plate waltzing auto...

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£1,000 - £1,500

A French bisque head and bisque shoulder plate waltzing automaton doll, attributed to Jules Nicholas Steiner (France), the bisque head with fixed blue glass eyes, painted features including brown feathered eyebrows and fine eyelashes, open mouth revealing teeth, blonde wig on cork pate, pierced ears, unmarked, the upper torso in kid leather, bisque lower arms, carton covered lower body, fixed key wind mechanism with lever, 39cm high; displayed under a glass display dome with circular wooden plinth base