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Pair of carved and painted wooden dolls depicting men with long queues, wearing hats and silk tunics, ankle-length silk pants, and shoes with toe decorations, carrying between them (one behind the other) a box suspended on poles with an image of the same scene painted on the box side; box made of pressed and painted tin; painted.
toys (recreational artifacts)
tin (metal)
paint (coating)
Chinese
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Tin
Painted
Figure
Chinese
Unknown
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.853
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