Grand Paper Mache Isho-Ningyo with Dramatically Painted Face, Early 1900s

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24" (61 cm.) Paper mache head with whitened complexion, painted features with theatrical painting (kumadori), bulging eyes, thick dramatic brows, red accented details to indicate ferocity, large ears, black human hair and topknots, shadowed crown, wooden armament with straw-filled padded costume of silk brocade, wooden hands and feet with painted blue shoes, sword. Fair condition, some frailty of silk, loss of complexion pigment, some craquelure. Taisho era, early 1900s.