Rare German All-Bisque "Three-Bow" Character,10490,by Gebruder Heubach

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8" (20 cm.) One-piece bisque head and torso,sculpted brown hair in short ringlet curls captured by a blue sculpted hair ribbon and trimmed with three glazed blue hair bows,painted brown side-glancing eyes,black upper eyeliner,white eyedots,short feathered brows,rounded nose,closed mouth with accented lips,loop-jointed bisque arms and legs,expressive fingers,sculpted and painted white bobby socks and brown shoes with bow straps,antique romper suit. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 10490 3. Comments: from a series of all-bisque dolls presented by Gebruder Heubach in 1913,which noted in their advertising that the sculptor was B. Zitzman. Value Points: especially beautiful sculpting of face,enhanced by well-detailed hair and hair bows.