A Pelham Puppet Ballet Girl Puppet redressed and styled as the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.
Her gown is a pleated silver lame trimmed with diamante and glass bead trim. Her wig/hair has been fully restyled and capped with a beaded, poly-clay headdress. Her face has been retouched and finished with glitter enamel paint to create the right 'cat-like' appearance.
Cleopatra is most famous for her appearances in Shakespeare's and George Bernard Shaw's plays about her life and the extravagant film versions staring Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. The real Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt) became the mistress of Roman emperor Julius Caesar - who helped her take the throne from her brother, who was then Pharaoh - followed by a disastrous love affair with Mark Antony. After failing to prevent a Roman invasion of Egypt she is reportedly said to have taken her own life with the poison bite of an asp.
This puppet was designed and completed for a private commission and fits within a regular Pelham Puppet box.
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