A set of six Chinese dolls, each of printed cotton representing various characters in appropriate costume and labelled in English on the base with titles such as 'mandarin', 'scholar' and 'Chinese evangelist', with accompanying hand-written notes, early 20th century (6)

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A set of six Chinese dolls, each of printed cotton representing various characters in appropriate costume and labelled in English on the base with titles such as 'mandarin', 'scholar' and 'Chinese evangelist', with accompanying hand-written notes, early 20th century (6)

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The notes suggest that the dolls were used as a teaching aid for a lesson on China, perhaps by a returning missionary

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