#174

Two Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Dolls as Bride and Groom
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$1,100
sold
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Description
12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden socket head with sculpted and painted facial features and hair,cloth body,wooden hands. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Chinese,Door of Hope,circa 1920s. Value Points: wearing traditional wedding costumes,the bride has rare rounded face with two coiled braids at the back of head decorated with red petal flowers; the groom has side-parted hair with fine feathering around the forehead.