Extremely Rare Exhibition-Size 13 German Bisque Character by Gebruder Heubach

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28" (71 cm.) Bisque socket head with sculpted short brown bobbed hair with bangs,deeply- intaglio sculpted upper and side-glancing eyes with large pronounced pupils and blue irises,white eye dots,black and incised upper eyeliner,slightly modeled feathered brows,rounded upturned nose with accented nostrils,closed mouth modeled as though open with defined space between the outlined lips,two painted upper teeth,composition and wooden ball-jointed toddler body with side-hip jointing,wearing pink cotton romper suit with featherstitch embroidery,woolen argyle stockings,leather shoes,carrying a butterfly net, (additional costume comprising pink plaid pinafore and white blouse is included). Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 13 Heubach (square) Germany. Comments: Gebruder Heubach,circa 1913,the model was identified as sculpted by B. Zitzman for Heubach in their advertising of that year from their series of "Unsere goldigen Drei" (Our Golden Three) and this grand-sized example was clearly intended as an Exhibition Model. The exact doll is shown in Lydia Richter's Heubach Character Dolls,page 99. Value Points: extremely-rare grand size allows the superb characterization to be accentuated with deeply-set eye sockets,intaglio-sculpted pupils,impressed modeling of dimples,and having finest quality bisque and painting,rare and original toddler body,Richter provenance.