How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible. Maria Teresa Hart - Author, Doll.

Armpit Pads, Petticoats, and Porcelain: How Stylish Dolls Taught Girls to Be Victorian Women By Hazel Cills | December 11, 2018 | 4:00pm ...

Antique dolls were found during a building assessment of Moncton's Thomas Williams House, built in 1833. And they were promptly put back by the construction worker who found them.

High fashion and art will merge in the form of Victorian porcelain dolls at a Luminato exhibit opening in June. Dolls by Viktor&Rolf features precisely scaled-down versions of designs by the famed ...

Antiques Roadshow fans were left freaked out by a 'terrifying' doll that made an appearance on a recent episode (Image: @RoadshowPBS) Read More Related Articles. BBC Antiques Roadshow fans stunned ...

The porcelain dolls became popular and are dated between 1850 and 1920. Nikki said: "I was just looking for a certain type of shell and it caught my eye and I just thought 'oh wow!' ...

A DARLINGTON artist is giving hundreds of Victorian dolls a modern make-over. Michelle Temperley-Laverick is searching for a ‘doll’s house’ in which to work on her unique collection of ...

In the Nineteenth century, Victorian mourning dolls were a standard element of the grieving process. Their dainty porcelain faces were painted in extraordinary likeness of a dead child, sometimes ...

The result: Porcelain dolls were poised for a takeover. In the New Yorker in 2015, writer Thessaly La Force recounted Europe’s feverish obsession with porcelain.