Two Chinese Wooden Children from Door of Hope Mission, One with Rare Hair Painting

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6" (15 cm.) and 8". Each has carved wooden head with painted hair and sculpted facial features with tinted detail, firmly-stuffed muslin body, wooden hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese Door of Hope Mission, circa 1920. Value Points: rare children models, both wearing exquisite original silk or cotton hand-stitched costumes, and the girl with rare painting of hair at her crown.