We offer a selection of Secondary Market Porcelain dolls from such makers as the Ashton Drake Galleries and such porcelain doll artists as Yolanda Bello, Wendy Lawton and Julie Good Kruger. View an Antique porcelain doll from Germany in both miniature and full size porcelain dolls as they are available. Visit our sister sites for Porcelain Doll Parts and Doll Clothing and Accessories

About Your Modern Porcelain Doll

• A modern Porcelain doll is assembled with Cloth stuffed body including a wire armature for posing
• A porcelain doll will often have a two piece porcelain head, shoulder plate construction that also allows for posing of the porcelain head.
• Doll Heads, arms and lower legs are made of high fire porcelain.
• Doll Eyes and lashes are inset, and wigs are applied directly to the porcelain.
• Porcelain Doll Clothing may be quite intricate, or very simple depending on the style.
• A Manufactured porcelain doll usually has the features painted on after high firing. A porcelain doll that is Hand poured and painted would have the painted featured fired right onto the porcelain.
• Each Porcelain doll is usually available as either a limited edition doll with signature and papers of authenticity, or as an open edition porcelain doll that may come with a certificate of manufacture as well as maker and artist.

Many people today refer to a Porcelain Doll as "China ", which is perhaps derived from China T-Cups and Fine China.
China is indeed a porcelain product, but refers to the finish that is applied. In the case of China Dishes, there is a high glaze applied to seal the porcelain. In the 1800's there were indeed China Dolls produced. They had a high glaze finish and may have been loved dearly by your grandmother or great grandmother.
The picture to the left, illustrates the finish on an antique China Head Doll. Today's Victorian porcelain dolls seldom sport this glazed finish, although it is sometimes seen on Clown dolls. Today's porcelain dolls are finished in a porcelain finish called bisque.