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Description
8" (20 cm.) All-carved wooden doll with painted hair and facial features to depict Japanese
woman,has amber complexion,hair sculpted in elaborate top knot,side-slanted painted
eyes,wooden five-piece jointed body with clothes-pin style hands and slits in feet for
posing,and wearing original muslin undergarment and silk kimono. Condition: generally
excellent,few typical minor paint rubs,shoes repainted. Comments: designed for the Schoenhut
circus,and of the same style and era of production,circa 1910,possibly a model from the German
Schoenhut family designed to meet a particular popular European demand. Value Points: very
rare model designed to display with the Humpty-Dumpty circus,no other example is known to
exist.