Two Chinese Carved Bone Miniature Tumbling Acrobat Toys

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4" (10 cm.) Each is of carved bone with well defined features and costumes, swivel-jointed at shoulders and dowel-jointed at shoulders and knees. Included is a single figure with exceptional carving, and a double-figure toy. Condition: single figure toy is excellent, double figure toy has missing one balance bar missing and another split. Chinese, mid-19th century.