It's very well suited to ceramic sculpture. One of the staple mediums of sculpting and doll making, wax can be used in any variety of ways. Betty Boop style of dolls are normally confined to small dolls compromised entirely of bisque. The Betty Boop reference is applied to it because the hairstyle, usually in blonde or gold, closely resembles the Betty Boop character. Character dolls are shaped to be lifelike and resemble adults, children or infants.
China dolls are the most commonly recognized doll out side of the collectible world.
Most popular with children back in the mid 1800s, china dolls had a glazed, porcelain surface which, depending on it's thickness, was often translucent to a certain degree. Any doll that is made up primarily of materials and textiles is considered to be a cloth doll. Composition dolls, such as the ever beloved Shirley Temple dolls, are made up of a mixture of several compounds that create the modeling base. With a base that is most often made of sawdust, it is then often mixed with paper, glue plaster and plaster of Paris. This can all vary according to whomever is making the material.