Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Doll Depicting

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12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden socket head with high domed forehead,painted black hair at back of scalp with hole for queue,carved facial features,painted brows,eyes and mouth,muslin body,wooden lower arms. Condition: generally excellent,queue missing,tunic faded. Comments: Door of Hope mission doll,Shanghai,circa 1925,depicting a young Chinese gentleman of high social rank. Value Points: with distinctive horizontally carved lines on his forehead and defined eye hollows and dimples at lip corners,the young man wears his original short black jacket over blue tunic,teal pants,slippers.