German Bisque Character, 8546, by Gebruder Heubach with Very Rare Glass Eyes

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18" (46 cm.) Pink-tinted bisque socket head of very plump-cheeked boy with deeply-frowning expression, sculpted brown curly hair with topknot and run-away forelock curl, blue glass eyes, dark upper eyeliner, painted curly lashes, curvy brows, rounded small nose with accented nostrils, closed mouth with extremely-downcast lips, composition body jointed at shoulders and hips. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 8. Comments: Gebruder Heubach, circa 1912, the 8546 model which first appeared as an all-bisque piano baby figure and then as a very rarely found doll, especially in this glass-eyed variation of which few examples are known to exist. The doll appeared in German Doll Studies, page 21, in an article by the Ciesliks discussing the model and its various forms. Value Points: superb doll with wonderfully- characterized fretful expression enhanced by its large size, and including well-defined modeled fret lines at lip corners and above the brows, and deep sculpting of hair which continues all around the back of head.