#156

Four Chinese Wooden Dolls from Door of Hope Mission
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$1,700
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Description
5" (13 cm.) 7", 8" and 11". Each has carved wooden head with defined sculpting of tinted facial features and hair, muslin firmly-stuffed body and wooden limbs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese Door of Hope Mission, early period models, circa 1915. Value Points: rare models, each wearing fine original hand-stitched costumes, including Amah with baby strapped to her back, young girl with smiling expression and having silk floss hair attached to her cap, and young lad with painted side-parted hair.