Jan McLean is a retired
dollmaker from
Dunedin in
New Zealand.
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''www.janmcleandolls.info''. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
McLean's first dolls, "Chloe" and "Phoebe" were created in 1987.
In 1991, she exhibited at the
American International Toy Fair
The North American International Toy Fair (formerly the American International Toy Fair and also known as Toy Fair New York) is an annual toy industry trade show held in mid-February in New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and at t ...
in New York City, where her doll "Pansy" won a Dolls Award for Excellence.
Many of McLean's dolls are made of
porcelain, but she has also produced smaller versions of the porcelain originals since 2003 in
vinyl polymer, known as "Lollipop Girls".
In 2009, she retired from dollmaking.
References
Dollmakers
Living people
Artists from Dunedin
Year of birth missing (living people)
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