Delicate Antique Carved Wooden Japanese Doll with Silk and Paper Kimona bear drawing There is a bit of

There is a bit of loss to the painting on the face--as documented in images that were taken with 3-4 times magnification

in good shape

"invention" written under the more advanced paper weavings

875 in a vernacular photography auction at Swann- here

Delicate Antique Carved Wooden Japanese Doll with Silk and Paper Kimona bear drawing There is a bit ofI spotted this in a case at Brimfield in July, and could not walk away from her such an exquisitely crafted Japanese doll, and an old one, c. 1900 or a bit earlier, with carved and painted wooden head and body, and real hair. I believe she would be called a "hina" doll (of which there are many types, standing and seated), which represented emperors and empresses and members of the court. The silk of her purple kimona is frayed, and much of the lower