Carved wooden marionette in the form of a Music Hall ball-juggler. Ivory, black and red painted face and eyes with black dots for pupils. Strongly carved mouth, moustache and ears. Oval wooden yoke and fairly heavy pelvis with material torso, thickly stuffed,.
Lower leg with shaped knees and tongue for joint on upper leg. Wooden turned up toes, shod in velvet slippers.
Original two piece costume; black and dark pink silk - lace ruffles at neck and knees; silver sequins on seams and edges, with some groups of three sequins on the black material. Black stockings.
Two control bars; bar 1 a modern replacement with strings run through balls to the left and right hand of figure. Bar 2 with seven notches - 3 in use + one screw eye with 'run through' (goes through right ball and joins to right toe); one string from top of head through left. ball and fixed to screw eye on right of bar. Bowing (to between legs) string attached to third notch in from right. Head strings to extreme ends. Staple behind/above left heel to pull leg up and back.