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Puppet

Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
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 createdSeptember 23, 2004
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