#177

Five Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Dolls in Original Costumes
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$1,400
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Description
9" (23 cm.) -12". Each has carved wooden socket head with painted hair and carved and painted facial features,cloth body,carved wooden hands,and each is wearing its silk and cotton costume hand-sewn in the Mission workshops. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese Door of Hope mission,circa 1920s. Value Points: included Amah nanny with carved chignon,older woman with chignon and painted thinning hair at crown,two children (one with side-parted hair),and student with real hair queue.