Japanese Portrait Bride Doll (Hanayome-Ningyo)

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18" (46 cm.) Paper mache head with slender face and elongated slender neck, gofun finish, glass eyes, black silk fiber hair in upswept coiffure which is nearly covered by an elaborate and richly-draped white coiffe with ornamental tinsel, bows and foil ornaments, wooden hands, wearing an extraordinary white silk brocade bridal gown with extended train, white layered inner collars, and with a red brocade pouch with silver coin trim, and fan, presented on original wooden base. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Japan, Showa era, mid-1900s, the doll was featured in the book, Japanese Dolls, The Fascinating World of Ningyo, by Alan Scott Pate. Value Points: exquisite costuming is enhanced by fine refined pose.