Ludic and improving capacities 

From the fourth century BC, the dolls procured an improving capacity. They started to speak to showy characters, for example, Julius Pollux describes in his Onomasticon (second century CE): the slave, the laborer, the medical attendant, the hefty lady, the satyr from the satyr play, and so forth. Doll highlights may be exaggerated and twisted. By the Hellenistic period, the dolls moved toward becoming grotesques: twisted creatures with lopsided heads, listing bosoms or conspicuous tummies, hunchbacks and bare men. Grotesques were a claim to fame of the city of Smyrna, yet in addition created all through the Greek world, incorporating into Tarsus and Alexandria, Qin warriors.

Tanagra dolls were a form cast sort of puppet delivered from the later fourth century BCE, fundamentally in the Boeotian town of Tanagra. They were covered with a fluid white slip before terminating, and were now and then painted a short time later in naturalistic tints with watercolors, for example, the "Lady en Bleu" ("Lady dressed in Blue") at the Louver. Tanagra figures delineate genuine ladies, and a few men and young men, in the regular ensemble, with well-known adornments, for example, caps, wreaths or fans. They appear to have been enhancing pieces for the home, utilized similarly as their cutting edge counterparts, however dissimilar to these they were frequently covered with their proprietors. Some character pieces[1] may have spoken to stock figures from the New Comedy of Menander and different journalists. Others proceeded with a prior convention of formed earthenware figures utilized as clique pictures or votive articles. Commonly they were around 10 to 20 centimeters high.

Earthenware was regularly utilized for dolls and other youngsters' toys. Models have been found of explained dolls or little ponies, simple to control for little hands. Once in awhile, the nature of a puppet is hard to decide, for example, the inquisitive chime icons from Boeotia, which show up toward the finish of the eighth century BC. They were outfitted with a long neck and a lopsided body, round and hollow and machine formed. The arms were decayed and the legs portable. The head was punctured with a gap to hang them. It is unsure in the event that they were toys or votive contributions.