22nd Feb, 2024 12:00

The Important Private Antique Doll Collection of Austin Smith and Margaret Harkin - Part 1

 
Lot 49
 

49

A rare Gustav Vichy clockwork dancing doll

Sold for £600
Estimated at £800 - £1,000


 
A rare Gustav Vichy clockwork dancing doll, with pressed bisque fashionable doll swivel head, blue glass eyes, pink closed mouth with darker pink highlights, ears pierced into the head, blonde hair wig on cork pate, carton body with wired arms and white bisque hands, original dark pink dress with lace and ribbon trim and cream underskirt, the legless torso on green painted three-wheeled platform and clockwork mechanism, when wound the doll goes along and spins around raising a garland —12 1/4in. (31cm.) high (some slight moth damage to hair and perishing to silk, no key so mechanism not tested)