Two Wood Dolls (Gosho Ningyo)

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

Two Wood Dolls (Gosho Ningyo)
Edo period (19th century)
Both carved of wood as chubby infants applied with white gesso, the details of their faces highlighted in black and their mouths painted red; tufts of hair, now missing, to be attached to head of larger doll
11in. (27.9cm.) long; 15¼in. (38.8cm.) high (2)

Exhibited

Asia House Gallery, New York, "Mingei: Folk Arts of Old Japan," Spring 1965 (the smaller doll)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Hugo Munsterberg, Mingei: Folk Arts of Japan, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society, 1965), no. 73 (the smaller doll).

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