Companion Rare German Bisque Jubilee Doll by Gebruder Heubach for Emil Bauersachs

Live Auction

15" (38 cm.) Pink-tinted bisque shoulderhead 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, kid pin-jointed body, bisque lower arms. Condition: generally excellent, tiny flake on one finger tip. Comments: Gebruder Heubach, 1913, the shoulderhead variation of Jubilee Doll, #6 of this catalog, was commissioned by Emil Bauersachs; as a celebration model for the 100th anniversary of Germany's 1813 liberation from French Napoleon occupation. Value Points: very rare shoulderhead variation, of which few examples are known to exist, the doll has exemplary bisque, sculpting and painting, antique costume to depict the 1813 era event which it represented. The doll is shown in the book, German Doll Studies by Marianne and Jurgen Cieslik, page 248. Private Collection of Marianne Cieslik.