Bisque Dolls

About Antique Bisque Dolls

Until the late 1800s, most porcelain doll heads were glazed, giving them a polished white appearance. Then dolls with unglazed heads (also known as bisque) became popular in France, yielding a more human skin color. Bisque dolls were typically highly detailed with natural hair and lifelike features and clothing. There are three types of bisque dolls: fashion dolls (adults), bébé dolls (babies), and character dolls (expressive or dressed as a character).


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Antique Bisque Original Bebe Thuillier$510.00 Ends Thursday 15 bids 75 watchers
Antique Bisque Head Googlie Googly A.m. 253 Doll 9 1/2"$385.99 Ends Monday 12 bids 62 watchers
11" German Bisque Heubach Character Laughing Child! $364.99 Ends in 6 hours 9 bids 49 watchers
Antique Simon Halbig Cm Bergmann Bisque Doll Lovely 30"$355.99 Ends in 9 hours 9 bids 65 watchers
Antique Bisque Doll Head With Glass Eyes No Reserve$355.00 Ends Thursday 7 bids 57 watchers
Kestner 13" 171 Antique Bisque Doll Orig.bjb-rare Size$350.00 Ends in 7 hours 1 bid 11 watchers
Antique Kestner All Bisque Dollhouse Doll W Wardrobe$350.00 Ends Monday 22 bids 90 watchers
All Original All Bisque Doll, With Trousseau, Superb!$305.00 Ends Wednesday 9 bids 62 watchers
Vintage Clarmaid French Bisque Doll Fashion Lady Bru$265.00 Ends in 10 hours 10 bids 46 watchers
Victorian Marotte Bisque Head Doll With Music Box$249.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 17 watchers
Life-size Antique Bisque Jdk #257 Char. Doll-exquisite$249.00 Ends in 13 hours 2 bids 38 watchers
18” Bisque Beatle John Lennon, Sgt. Pepper’s Lhcb$248.49 Ends in 10 hours 5 bids 16 watchers
All Bisque Georgene Averill Bonnie Bab Sleep Eye$247.50 Ends Tuesday 8 bids 38 watchers
Swaine & Co. Dip Character Baby Bisque Head $233.50 Ends in 1 hour 8 bids 49 watchers
German Antique All Bisque Wire Jointed Three Bears $225.24 Ends Friday 3 bids 71 watchers
Antique German Jdk Kestner 247 Bisque Composition Doll$222.75 Ends in 11 hours 15 bids 48 watchers
Beautiful Antique Bisque Head K 171 26" Doll$203.50 Ends in 3 hours 13 bids 38 watchers
Antique German Bisque Head Doll 1800's "k"$203.50 Ends Tuesday 6 bids 62 watchers
Huge 28" Gebruder Kuhnlens 165 Antique Bisque Head Doll$202.62 Ends Sunday 6 bids 23 watchers
Lg. Rare Bisque Snowman + Kids Early 1900s Snowbaby 8"$201.50 Ends Thursday 2 bids 8 watchers
Kestner 30" Dep. 154.15 Bisque Doll$200.00 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 18 watchers
Antique Bisque Heubach Coquette Character Doll 11 Inch$200.00 Ends in 9 hours 1 bid 17 watchers
24" C.m. Bergman Bisque Head & Joint.body No Damage$199.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 18 watchers
Pretty Antique Bisque Head Simon & Halbig K*r Doll 27”$184.70 Ends Thursday 3 bids 64 watchers
Antique German Bisque Head Simon & Halbig K*r Doll$183.20 Ends Thursday 2 bids 61 watchers
Old German Cotton, Bisque Heubach Boy Candy Container$178.16 Ends in 11 hours 5 bids 59 watchers
24" Antique Simon Halbig Star K*r Bisque German Doll $178.00 Ends in 11 hours 21 bids 89 watchers
14" German Black Woman Bisque Head ,joint.body No Damag$175.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 12 watchers
Beautiful 1880 Antique Kestner Turned Head Bisque Doll $174.50 Ends in 10 hours 8 bids 53 watchers
11" Early J.d.kestner Bisque/composition Baby$169.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 4 watchers
Rare Rose O`neill Org.sgn.bisque #4882. Kewpie Doll- M.$168.00 Ends Wednesday 9 bids 30 watchers
Lg 28in Antique German Bisque Head Doll W/ Orig Clothes$167.50 Ends Friday 11 bids 77 watchers
Huge Antique German Bisque Baby Doll Pm 914 58cms$150.14 Ends Thursday 1 bid 37 watchers
Krammer & Reinhardt Baby Character Bisque Signed Doll$150.00 Ends Monday 1 bid 31 watchers
Bye Lo Baby (grace Story Putnam )15in Bisque Head$148.90 Ends Tuesday 25 bids 29 watchers
Antique German Bisque, Cotton Heubach Boy W/ Skis$147.50 Ends in 11 hours 6 bids 32 watchers
Antique German Bisque Bathing Beauty Doll Figurine$132.48 Ends Thursday 5 bids 26 watchers
German Bisque Head Doll Bjb Handwerck As Is$129.99 Ends Tuesday 2 bids 11 watchers
Antique German Simon & Halbig Bisque Doll #1009 Ca.1889$125.49 Ends Tuesday 3 bids 66 watchers
Orig Halbig K&r 23" Bisque Child Doll W Bl/sl/e Nr $125.49 Ends Saturday 3 bids 14 watchers
Sm. Antique Bisque Head Doll On 5-piece Body, 5" High$124.63 Ends in 5 hours 16 bids 75 watchers
Kestner 214 Bisque Head Antique Doll, 19"-- Marked Body$118.50 Ends Wednesday 9 bids 31 watchers
Vintage Bisque Kewpie, Sitting With Black Cat$113.50 Ends Thursday 8 bids 14 watchers
Adorable Antique Bisque "bye-lo" Baby Doll~grace Putnam$112.50 Ends in 12 hours 3 bids 50 watchers
Antique 10”gebr.heubach Bisque Head Character Baby Doll$112.50 Ends Thursday 5 bids 23 watchers
Antique Bisque 25" Schoenau & Hoffmeister German Doll$107.55 Ends in 10 hours 10 bids 61 watchers
4" Bisque Grace Putnam "bye - Lo Baby" Germany $106.57 Ends Tuesday 2 bids 13 watchers
Rare Gerbruder Kuhnlenz 96 -14 All Bisque Doll C.1900$104.49 Ends Wednesday 3 bids 40 watchers
Antique Recknagel Bisque Boy Doll #28 9"$103.50 Ends Wednesday 8 bids 11 watchers
1800s Bru French 12 Inch Number 2-t Bisque Head Doll$102.50 Ends Tuesday 7 bids 56 watchers
Antique German Bisque Doll French Market Dep 31 Inches$101.00 Ends in 10 hours 12 bids 61 watchers
Antique Doll Creepy Haunted German Bisque Human Hair $100.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid 11 watchers
15"antique Wood/composition German Doll Body For Bisque$100.00 Ends in 12 hours 4 bids 23 watchers
Antique Sfbj 236 Paris 8.5" Bisque Doll Laughing Jumeau$99.99 Ends Thursday 1 bid 7 watchers
Antique Doll 8" Bisque & Wood With Glass Eyes$99.99 Ends Tuesday 2 bids 27 watchers
13" Sfbj 60 Bisque Head Doll -glass Eyes -needs Repair$99.00 Ends in 10 hours 1 bid 10 watchers
Antique L W & C~louis Wolf~ All Bisque Doll #152 2/0~9"$99.00 Ends in 12 hours 1 bid 14 watchers
Bisque Head Character Doll W/ Squeeze Action Cymbals $99.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid 6 watchers
23" Pretty German Bisque Handwerck Stamped Body $96.00 Ends Thursday 5 bids 19 watchers
Lovely Antique Bisque Parian Turned Head French/german$95.00 Ends in 11 hours 2 bids 46 watchers

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Recent News: Bisque Dolls

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Antique doll could be quite valuable
Times and Transcript, March 20th

Q: I have an antique doll that was manufactured by Simon & Halbig. It has a bisque head, a fully jointed body and is dressed is its original clothes...Read more

Dennis Auction Service
Antiques and Arts Weekly, March 18th

Also Celluloid, Compo, China & Steiff Animals, Box Lots of Dolls, Doll Parts, Clothing w/Vintage Outfits & So Much More! Visit Website for Individual Photos...Read more

Seeing the delightful design of dolls
Pasadena Star-News, March 18th

Each doll is unique and the result of an involved process. First, Yoshihara forms a body from clay, which she dries and gives a bisque firing,...Read more

Antiques Roadshow experts visited Chorleywood last Friday
Watford Observer, March 16th

“Among the items brought in, were a mid 19th Century waxed head doll, in its original clothes, worth about £800 a Kammer and Reinhardt Bisque head doll,...Read more

Northfield Auctions
Antiques and the Arts Online, March 14th

Bisque Inkstand Coverd w/Figures: Elizabethen Men+Women enjoying a sporting game of cards! also a 9x7 ftprnt Inkstand w/cover of Elizabethan Family...Read more

Theriault's Doll Auction Achieves Record Prices
Antiques and the Arts Online, March 9th

Featured on the cover of the catalog was a pair of bisque dolls by Emile Jumeau, likely presented by that famous French doll maker at the 1899 Universal...Read more

Doll Club to hold 18th annual March Fantasy Doll and Toy Show and Sale
Press-Register - al.com (blog), March 6th

each selling a variety of dolls, toys and doll-related items. Dolls and toys range from older favorites such as antique bisque and composition dolls,...Read more

Couple transforms home into shop for repairing beloved antique dolls and clocks
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, February 25th

Robbiani's patients are dolls, from modern Barbies to antique bisque figures that are centuries old. A certified “dollologist,” Robbiani and her husband,...Read more

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