#23

Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Girl with Charming Costume
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$800
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8" (20 cm.) Carved wooden socket head with angular features,painted tiny black eyes,feathered brows,closed mouth with pale lips,painted black hair in skull cap manner with defined center part and red hair clips,cloth body with wooden hands. Condition: generally excellent,some light spotting on tunic. Comments: Chinese Door of Hope mission,circa 1920. Value Points: the child has unusual painting of hair with ornamental clips,wears her original aqua short tunic with blue lining,undergarment,plum silk short trousers with aqua silk biding,blue embroidered silk slippers and a wonderful lavender cap with embroidery and three-color pom-pom.