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15" (38 cm.) Each with paper mache or wood-composite socket head and lower arms and legs, lightly-tinted complexion, glass inset eyes, painted features, closed mouth, The boy has brush-stroke painted hair, and is wearing silk brocade hakima trousers and black silk kimono with embroidered designs of fans; and the girl, with black human hair, is wearing a red silk crepe kimono with embroidered details of fans, symbols and flowers, a cord-tied obi with exuberant fawn spotted bow at the back and carries a little necessities pouch. Generally excellent. Mid-1900s. Each of the pair has a matchng artist signature on the front torso, and were likely given as a wedding presentation set. The dolls are photographed in Japanese Dolls, The Fascinating World of Ningyo by Alan Scott Pate, page 239.