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Animated Reuge brand music box, featuring a small doll representing a Louis XV dancer turning on herself with a pause on pointe and acceleration. Entirely handmade with great meticulousness, by Marthe Philippart, the face with a large white bean, the ceremonial clothes made from silk caterpillars, gauze, lace, the hair in sheep's wool, the frame in brass wires. The whole under a glass globe. Musical piece "Gavotte of Louis XIII"
works perfectly
Height 16cm
dancer height: 9cm
mid-twentieth
A family story, Marthe Philippart made the smallest dolls in the world, ordered extensively by the luxury houses Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Rochas..
Ref: F696NVHAN3