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 glazed dolls.[2]
A typical china doll has a glazed porcelain head with painted molded hair and a body made of cloth or leather. They range in size from more than 30" (76 cm) tall to 1 inch (2.5 cm). Antique china dolls were predominantly produced in Germany, with the peak of popularity between approximately 1850 and 1890. Rare and elaborately decorated antique china dolls can have value on the collectors market. Beginning in the mid-20th-century reproductions of china dolls of various quality were produced in Japan and the United States.
- ^ "China - China in Glossary of Doll Collecting Terms". Archived from the original on 2010-08-23. Note: the author Denise Van Patten is qualified as a self-published expert because she has previously been published by Random House, see Van Patten, Denise (2005). The official price guide to dolls : antique, vintage, modern. New York: Random House Inc. ISBN 9780375720369.
- ^ Coleman, Dorothy S., Elizabeth A., and Evelyn Jk. (1968), "China Head Dolls", The Collector's Encyclopaedia of Dolls Volume One, London: Robert Hale, pp. 118–134, ISBN 0-7090-5598-6
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