Carved Wooden Imperial Couple as the Classic Kokin-Bina of the Meiji Era, Late 1800s

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15" (38 cm.) Each has carved wooden head and hands (he with wooden feet), with fine lustrous gofun finish, narrow glass eyes, painted features, open mouth with defined tongue tip, "sky-brows", and feathered detail of hair around the forehead. She has long black silk fiber hair under an elaborately decorated crown with phoenix top and jeweled pendants, and is wearing a multi-layered kimono with embroidered sleeves in paulownia design, with a silk gauze train with painted designs, and carrying a wooden fan with a painted scene. He is wearing Sokuti style black kimono (ho) and a tall black lacquered cap, and carries a sceptre. She is in excellent condition; he is excellent except costume silk is quite frail. Meii era, late 1800s, the classic style of that era, known as kokin bina.