A rare Jean Roullet ‘Le Berger Watteau’ shepherdess with lamb automaton 1880s, with rare special commissioned pressed bisque Jumeau portrait head, fixed blue glass eyes, arched brow brows, finely modelled features, closed red full lips with darker red detail, applied pierced ears, original blonde mohair wig in ringlets, remains of pulped sawdust pate, flanged neck, bisque shoulders with breasts, papier-mâché body and legs with wired arms with bisque forearms, original Burgundy, pink, gold and floral printed silk dress, lace, ribbon and cord trim, tall straw bonnet with pink silk lining and red ribbon trim, petticoats, drawers, silk stockings and red slippers, holding a lidded basket with wool lamb and standing on a square wooden base, when wound the music plays, head turns, the basket lid is lifted with one hand and the lamb head turns —28 ¾in. (73cm.) high (some wear and ageing to clothes, wig balding, pate broken into pieces, does not stand as ankles are weak and other wear)