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Description
14" including hat (36 cm.) Gosho-ningyo (palace doll) crafted of wood with well-carved features, hand and feet details, and covered overall in a fine white gofun with painted details, thick silk fiber hair, smiling expression, is depicted standing with right leg thrust forward and body turned to the side, with kusudama (decorative flower ball) made of silk crepe with thread netting and trailing silk flowers with a lengthy multicolored silk thread tail extended between his two outstretched hands. He is wearing a large black eboshi court cap, long sleeved outer coat of chirimen silk crepe with embroidered designs of flowers in purple and green thread with gold highlights, over a silk crepe haragake bib with embroidered designs and tied at the back. Surface craquelure next to nose, some textile fading, kusudama augmented. Edo Period, 19th century. Kusudama are decorative flower balls created from aromatic and propitious flowers and plants that were seen as talismans to prolong life and were originally closely connected with the 5th Month Boy's Day display.