#294

Very Rare German All-Bisque
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Description
6" (15 cm.) l. One-piece all-bisque figures depicting Admirals Cook and Perry,each with realistically-sculpted features and costumed in heavily-grouted "snow" costume; the figures are posed at either end of a grand snow-ball which is actually the globe of the world and are which are painted the North and South Poles,and they appear to be rolling the snow ball. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 9439 (incised) made in Germany (green stamp). Comments: Gebruder Heubach,circa 1910,the very rare piece was created to commemorate Peary̴s 1909 expedition to the North Pole.