Rare All-Original German Bisque Jubilee Doll by Gebruder Heubach for Emil Bauersachs

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13" (33 cm.) Pink-tinted bisque socket head depicting an older girl child, blonde sculpted hair in tousled curls decorated with a glazed blue hair band and large bow at crown, painted blue downcast eyes defined by lowered eyelids, black upper eyeliner, white eye dots, single stroke brows, accented nostrils, primly-closed lips with center accent line, Sonneberg composition and wooden fully-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Heubach (square) 7865 Germany. Comments: Gebruder Heubach, 1913, under special commission for Emil Bauersachs; the doll was marketed as Jubilee Doll, created as a celebration model for the 100th anniversary of Germany's 1813 liberation from French Napoleon occupation. Value Points: very rare model, of which few examples are known to exist, this doll was acquired from the original Bauersachs family by Marianne and Jurgen Cieslik. The doll was featured on the premiere issue of Puppenmagazin and the story is told in German Doll Studies by Cieslik, page 248. The doll is wearing its original presentation costume in the early 1800s style. Private Collection of Marianne Cieslik.