Puppet
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Costume doll of a woman with painted brown hair, gold earrings, and a pink fabric hair decoration with a beaded finial attached to wire which acts as a spring. Small metallic gold and silver beads are also glued to the hair as decoration. She wears an orange robe, the v-shaped green panel at the neck decorated with couched gold threadwork and trimmed with white fur, and her robe is decorated with couched gold and coloured threadwork to represent a dragon's face. She has a large violet hoop belt decorated with gold panels, a pink and white cotton underskirt of the same material used to line the robe, and red fabric-covered shoes. Her hands, legs and feet are wooden
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Ceramic, paint, wood, fabric, cotton, metal, beads, gold thread, cotton thread and fur |
Brief description | Costume doll of a woman. Chinese |
Physical description | Costume doll of a woman with painted brown hair, gold earrings, and a pink fabric hair decoration with a beaded finial attached to wire which acts as a spring. Small metallic gold and silver beads are also glued to the hair as decoration. She wears an orange robe, the v-shaped green panel at the neck decorated with couched gold threadwork and trimmed with white fur, and her robe is decorated with couched gold and coloured threadwork to represent a dragon's face. She has a large violet hoop belt decorated with gold panels, a pink and white cotton underskirt of the same material used to line the robe, and red fabric-covered shoes. Her hands, legs and feet are wooden |
Credit line | Given by the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild |
Other number | P.137 - British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild number |
Collection | |
Accession number | S.499-2001 |
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Record created | September 23, 2004 |
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