Name that doll: Is it Pierot/Pierrot?

Hi I have an elementary question I hope you will help me with.

I am trying to figure out the name of a type of doll. They are china or
porcelain?, articulate (in limb that is, not in their speech), wear
clown type costumes (classically plain), I think they always wear a
kind of skull cap, and they have tears on their cheeks. You know the
ones. It also occurs to me, might be wrong, that there were boy and
girl versions, and that the reason they were crying was becasue they
were apart.

I thought it was "Pierot Doll" or "Pierrot Doll" but Im having not
having much luck googling them. I am not looking to purchase, I just
want to know about their history and origin.

THANKS!

On 17 Oct 2006 15:48:41 -0700, ehjayel wrote:

Hi I have an elementary question I hope you will help me with.

I am trying to figure out the name of a type of doll.

The spelling is 'pierrot'. The Pierrot is a clown

They are china or
porcelain?, articulate (in limb that is, not in their speech), wear
clown type costumes (classically plain), I think they always wear a
kind of skull cap, and they have tears on their cheeks. You know the
ones. It also occurs to me, might be wrong, that there were boy and
girl versions, and that the reason they were crying was becasue they
were apart.

The tear on the cheek is very stylised. I've never been aware of the
'complementary' boy and girl versions, although I guess there's no reason
both sexes shouldn't exist.

I thought it was "Pierot Doll" or "Pierrot Doll" but Im having not
having much luck googling them. I am not looking to purchase, I just
want to know about their history and origin.

This will tell you the history of the Pierrot, but not about the dolls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/m...t/history.html

I guess the dolls were just modelled on real life.


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The Wanderer wrote:
On 17 Oct 2006 15:48:41 -0700, ehjayel wrote:

Hi I have an elementary question I hope you will help me with.

I am trying to figure out the name of a type of doll.

The spelling is 'pierrot'. The Pierrot is a clown


Many thanks. That wikipedia on Pierrot was the best l I could turn up
in my googling too. Im really really surprised that these little guys
dont have any pages devoted to them on the net. I would have thought
they were quite collectable.

Anyway, thanks for the pointers.

If anyone knows where I can find more info about them, please do post.