These wonderful tiny antique porcelain dolls are called Frozen Charlottes. These porcelain dolls, made between 1890 and 1920, are actually dug out of the ground in Thuringia, Germany near the old factory grounds. (see previous post) These are the rarest of the dolls- a wee 1" tall.
Here's a sneak peak of a few pieces I'm working on. A necklace and maybe a pin.....
I absolutely LOVE these tiny ones. My research shows that these dolls were first made to cool down tea, and well-behaved children at the tea party got to keep the "prize". Later they were baked into cakes and pudding to be found by lucky children.
The term "Frozen Charlotte" comes from a poem written in 1840 about a girl named Charlotte who froze to death on her way to a New Years' ball. Strange- can you imagine the lawsuits today if you baked porcelain dolls in a child's birthday cake and someone chipped a tooth- or worse- choked!?
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