
Gebruder Heubach's Coquette doll, 10" tall, doll mold
7788, with blue painted hair bow
over her painted molded hair with coy intaglio painted side
glancing eyes and her precocious half smiling mouth, on a jointed composition
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The
Heubach family bought an established porcelain factory around
1843 in Lichte, Thuringia, Germany, where they were soon producing
porcelain figurines. About
1910 they began making bisque character socket or shoulder head
dolls, either molded hair or wigged, sleep eyes or their famous
painted
intaglio eyes. One
secret to Heubach's success was the location of an Art School for
artists and sculptors located near their factory, some of the
artists names are: Holwein, Krieger, Niemeyer, Wera vonBartels, Zeiller
and
Zitzmann - whose initials maybe included in the doll marking. Note: German doll
makers Gebruder Heubach & Gustav Heubach both used the doll mark GH.
Some named G. Heubach doll molds are; 5777 Dolly Dimple, 5730 Santa, 7684 Screamer, 7746 Laughing Boy,
7761 Spinach Boy, 7764 or 7851 the Singing Girl or the Singer, 7788 or 7850
Coquette, 7865 Jubliee Doll, 8035 Brother, 8050 Girl smiling with hair bow, 8058
Laughing Sister, 8381 Princess Juliana, 9101, 9102, 9103 Cat,
9141 Winker, 9145 Smiling Boy, 6970 Pouting Character, 10586 or 10633 Dainty Dorothy, 11173 Tiss Me, Baby BoKaye, Bonnie
Babe, 7877 or 7977 Baby Stuart, Chin Chin and Elisabeth a googly eye doll. |