Cybis "Funny Face" Child Clown Head (Circa 1970) "Funny Face" Child Clown Head porcelain bust on wood base. Cybis backstamp and signature on the back of the neck. Pale blue and white clown collar, with matching clown hat, blonde haired, blue eyed. Handcrafted by artisans in the USA. Minor repairs and wear, please see photos. Size: 6 x 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. #1062 Cybis had a continuous history of child head/portrait busts through most of the studio’s existence. All but three were attached to a wood base, and all were between 9” and 11” high overall. In 1976 Cybis introduced another iconic child head. The Child Clown Head ‘Funny Face’ was sculpted by by Marylin Chorlton except for the hat which was designed by William Pae. There are only two known instances when the Cybis studio ever licensed any of their designs to another manufacturer. Both of them were dolls produced by The Hamilton Collection during the early 1990s. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise because Cybis’ biggest rival, the Boehm studio, had been working with the Hamilton Collection ever since the late 1970s for both floral pieces and collector plates. Boehm actually made those items, which is why Hamilton’s name doesn’t appear anywhere on the items themselves. However, Boehm also partnered with Hamilton for three porcelain doll issues: a baby/christening doll in 1993, and a toddler and a bride doll in 1994. Boehm’s name does not appear anywhere on those dolls. This indicates that Boehm only supplied the design prototypes, and that the dolls themselves were entirely manufactured offshore by Hamilton. This was what the Cybis studio did: They supplied the design and a prototype, but Hamilton took care of everything else: marketing, production, and distribution. The first Cybis/Hamilton Collection collaboration resulted in the production of a clown doll called A Gift of Innocence. It was a modification of Cybis’ circa-1970s open-edition child clown head Funny Face into a doll with a porcelain head and other components. Reference: https://cybisarchive.com/2022/08/27/cybis-doll-designs-for-the-hamilton-collection/ Location C/D