Doll-A-Day 2019 #296: Frozen Charlotte

  Today's doll is this tiny girl.

She's a Frozen Charlotte.

A Frozen Charlotte is a porcelain doll made all in one piece,although I think most people consider the dolls with one piece legs and joined arms to be Frozen Charlotte's too.

This girl is about 3 inches tall, but Frozen Charlotte dolls do come larger. Most are small though, since early on they were slipped into Christmas puddings.

The boy version of a Frozen Charlotte is called a Frozen Charlie.

This little girl is carrying a purse.

The name 'Frozen Charlotte' comes from a very old song called "Fair Charlotte",which, in turn, was based on a poem called,"A Corpse Going to a Ball". In the song/poem a girl named Charlotte goes on a sleigh ride. She refuses to bundle up from the cold because she doesn't want to cover her pretty dress. Subsequently,she freezes to death!

This girl has some paint left, but I'm not sure it's even original to her. She has a red neckerchief, and some yellow paint left on her hair.

 

 

 

That's today's doll. 

See you tomorrow for another one.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #231:Shrunken Saturday: Frozen Charlottes and Odds and Ends

  This Shrunken Saturday post highlights some little girls I got yard saling a couple of weeks ago.

They are this pair of Frozen Charlotte dolls. Only one is dressed though.

Frozen Charlottes get their name from their one piece,unjointed bodies.

They were made in occupied Japan.

Sometimes they don't even have moveable arms, but these girls do.

This set of twins is 2 1/4" tall.

The arms are connected with wire.

They look quite different, but as you can see, they are made from the same mold,just painted differently. The naked one actually cleaned up pretty well. I haven't cleaned the other yet. I'm debating about her clothes. Should I wash her clothes?Should I remove the dress for something nicer,or leave it because it may be original?
You saw Mr. and Mrs. Mouse the other day,and the Pillsbury dolls yesterday. I got them all  the same day of yard saling the other week.

I also got this nice 1/6 scale purple velvet couch, which is also a storage box,a rustic chair,(It's been fitted with a pin cushion pillow that's way to big for realism. I need to remove it.),a Boyd's duck,an adironack chair,a pair of rocking chair Christmas ornaments,the Pillsbury dolls,11 miniature plates,(for?),and what I guess is a coaster that is just like my grama's tray that matches her set of glasses,and a mystery Strawberry Shortcake doll,(Strawberry with a haircut,or Huckleberry pie?He's wearing a Happy Family Ryan shirt.),and next to the frozen Charlottes on the couch is a ceramic baby. 

10 of the plates were like this.

One was like this.

Angelic ceramic baby.

See you Tomorrow for another doll.