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A bisque doll or porcelain doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of bisque or biscuit porcelain. Bisque dolls are characterized by their realistic, skin-like matte finish. They had their peak of popularity between 1860 and 1900 with French and German dolls. Bisque dolls are collectible, and antique dolls can be worth thousands of dollars.
A popular use for biscuit porcelain was the manufacture of bisque dolls in the 19th century, where the porcelain was typically tinted or painted in flesh tones. In the doll world, "bisque" is usually the term used, rather than "biscuit". [4] Parian ware is a 19th-century type of biscuit. Lithophanes were normally made with biscuit.
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by American cartoonist Rose O'Neill.The illustrated cartoons, appearing as baby cupid characters, began to gain popularity after the publication of O'Neill's comic strips in 1909, and O'Neill began to illustrate and sell paper doll versions of the Kewpies.
5. 1878 Schmitt et Fils French Bisque Doll. Snowdrift Antiques/ebay. Price on eBay: $8,500. Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady ...
China dolls, 1850-1870 - Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium . A china doll is a doll made partially or wholly out of glazed porcelain. The name comes from china being used to refer to the material porcelain. [1] Colloquially the term china doll is sometimes used to refer to any porcelain or bisque doll, but more specifically it describes only ...
Bisque-head German doll with glass eyes and ball-jointed composition body, c. 1920. Colloquially the terms porcelain doll, bisque doll and china doll are sometimes used interchangeably. But collectors make a distinction between china dolls, made of glazed porcelain, and bisque dolls, made of unglazed bisque or biscuit porcelain.
The UFDC (United Federation of Doll Clubs) still perpetuates the incorrect definition of these dolls is as follows: "Parian doll: doll made of fine white bisque (unglazed porcelain) without tinting. The features, hair and cheeks may be painted." [1] Many collectors now are discarding the term parian in favor of untinted bisque versus tinted ...
The dolls were affordable enough that children of the era could buy them with their own pocket money. [2] Smaller versions of the dolls were also known as penny dolls, because they were often sold for a cent. [5] [6] Most were made in Germany. [7] They are also made in bisque, and can come in white, pink-tinted, or, more rarely, painted black. [3]