#163

Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Doll Representing a Mourner 600/800
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$300
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12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden head with natural polished finish, tinted eyes, brows, and shaded lips, black painted pate with long black queue, firmly stuffed muslin body. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Shanghai Door of Hope Mission doll, circa 1930, representing a Mourner. Value Points: wearing rare costume comprising two layer off-white linen robes, blue pants, linen slippers, stiff open-weave canvas jacket and cap, hemp-wrapped tie at the waist.