Ceramic Dolls Arm Pendant

Historical Information

Find: Porcelain Doll’s Arm
Pattern/Details: Small white-glazed porcelain arm with delicately modelled hand and fingers; smooth glaze and rounded break from age and exposure.
Date: Circa 1850–1910
Material: Glazed porcelain (china doll limb, likely from a bisque or glazed doll).
Find Location: France (North West)

Additional Information:
This fragment originates from a 19th-century porcelain doll, a popular children’s toy across Europe. Many were produced in Thuringia, Germany — particularly in doll-making centres like Klingen, Kestner, and Hertwig — and exported widely to France, England, and the Low Countries. French factories, including Limoges and Parisian porcelain workshops, also created similar dolls prized for their fine white glaze and moulded detail.

The arm would once have been attached to a fabric or leather body with string or wire. Such fragments are common coastal finds near old trade routes, where damaged or discarded dolls were lost or washed into the sea.

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