#59

Six Chinese Paper Mache Dolls with Original Silk Costumes
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$400
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12" (30 cm.) largest. Each with sculpted and painted paper mache head depicting various personages,muslin body,paper mache hands,wooden feet and lower legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: China,circa 1920. Value Points: each is costumed in original silk with elaborately embroidered details,including three children with decorated hair or caps,older white haired woman with unusual applied decorations in hair,and aged grandmother and grandfather.