Endearingly Awkward Dancing Doll with Funny Face, Swinging Arms, and Uneven Length Legs wicker picnic set Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris

and carved with what I assume are the initials of its maker

Around the perimeter of the footed base are two inlaid hearts

child's cup

Endearingly Awkward Dancing Doll with Funny Face, Swinging Arms, and Uneven Length Legs wicker picnic set Ecole des Beaux-Arts in ParisThis one looked me in the eye and pleaded to for a third, or ninth life, and I had to listen. Looks like he's been repaired at least once, with wire holding a few joints together, making one leg decisively longer than the other! I have a hunch that his graphite drawn face may have been granted him sometime along the way too. He's an awkward one for sure, but endearing, and can be set in a few different poses or hung by a nail through the hole in his