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Description
6" (15 cm.) and 7". Each has carved wooden head with well-defined facial features, tinted eyes, brows and lips, black painted hair (he with feathering at the forehead and a bald circlet at the crown, and she with unusual shaved detail of forehead crown which is hidden by headdress with attached silk floss forehead "bangs" and with long silk queue), cloth torso, wooden hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese Door of Hope mission, circa 1920. Value Points: rare children, with distinctions in facial expression and coiffure, and wearing matching costumes of textured rose and apple-green silk, rose silk frog closures, rose silk slippers.