OOAK Jamalea Corre Handmade Victorian Figurine \"RACHEL\" so lovely 11\" tall For Sale

Lovely Rachel figurine, Victorian Little Lady. Handmade by famous artist Jamalea Corre\'. She is signed and numbered,#44RA83. Her lavender Victorian style dress is accented with lace and a cameo brooch. Beautifully handpainted face by Jamalea. There is a hankercheif in one hand and handmade umbrella in the other. The lavender hat is adorned with tiny flowers and feathers. I need to downsize my collection so sadley I will part with her with hopes she will go to another loving home. She was displayed in a closed glass cabinet in my smoke and pet free home.
Jamalea Corre, born in 1925, created her own heirloom figures or dolls. She was well established in the Southern California Community by 1970 when she wrote a guide booklet for Craft Course Publishers, titled \"Draping Heirloom Figures\" by Jonnie Corre. While the figures in the booklet are quite remarkable, her work improved over time, and the dolls produced in the 1990\'s are truly exquisite and beautiful. With great care given to every minute detail, Corre worked by herself on all her heirloom creations, making about 150 of each design, then moving onto a new design. Most figures were of Victorian or Western ladies. She captured the collector with her attention to detail from the gentle tendrils of hair hanging into their foreheads to the details in a lace glove. All her figures are signed CORRE on the bottom with a stock number dash and year number. The figures were highly sought by Hollywood decorators and Southern California figurine and doll collectors. Since Corre created on her own without assistance, they were not mass produced and are still very hard to find. They were sold only in exclusive gift stores in Southern California, such as, the landmark Madonna Inn gift shop in San Luis Obispo, California.The technique used by Corre to craft her unique and beautifully-detailed Victorian figurines combines a 17th Century Italianmethod of fabric preservation (similar to the Dresden lace method) with an unglazed ceramic process conceived in France during the first half of the 18th Century. The French process, called \"Porcelaine Biscuit,\" soon gained wide acceptance throughout the continent and in England because figurines finished in bisque lacked the shiny glaze of dish wares, making them greatly admired for their softness of tone and smoothness. Corre began with a bisque body and attached porcelain arms and a porcelain head. After collecting the various fabrics, laces, and jewelry, a mixture of glue and starch was prepared and the items to be applied were saturated with the mixture. The clothing and accessories were then \"draped\" in place. Next, Corre began the draping of the hair, a cotton crochet yarn, tinted and dyed to the desired color. Each strand was carefully positioned. Her doll\'s detailed faces were each hand-painted with acrylics. Finally, she employed a dry brush painting technique to finish off the details desired in the finished figures.