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© Eileen Sedgwick 2008 |
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The Little Mermaid |
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A figure based on the tragic story of the Little Mermaid by Hans
Anderson. She has sea green eyes. Her tail is based on studies of salmon, and
she holds a real shell mirror and a brush for her long curly coral hair. She sits on sculpted rocks painted and encrusted with papers, silk
fibres, beads and threads to simulate seaweeds, and there are some real tiny shells also fixed to the
setting. On her wrist, arm and in her hair and round her neck she has silvery
beaded twirly wire jewellery. The setting is mounted onto a strong circular box which can be opened. If she was a standing figure she
would be about 15cm tall so is roughly twelfth scale. |