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18" (46 cm.) Solid domed bisque socket head depicting a young child with sculpted short blonde wispy hair that is tucked behind her fully-sculpted ears and captured at the crown by a sculpted aqua-blue hair bow, small intaglio upper-glancing blue eyes with black incised eyeliner, white eye dots, accented nostrils of rounded nose, closed mouth with solemn expression, extended accent line between the lips, Sonneberg composition and wooden ball- jointed body, antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 7 Heubach (in square) 8381 Germany. Comments: Gebruder Heubach, circa 1912, the doll was modeled to represent the beloved young child, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands. Value Points: very rare portrait model with exemplary bisque and sculpting, it was made in two sizes only, this being the rare larger size.