Fine Hand-painted Japanese Composition Doll skillful carving and then added the perfect

and then added the perfect

This lovely baking dish makes me want to bake a quiche

perceiving them as adding to the aura of things that are already charged with history and tradition and made to be used

I have not touched the brass or wood but it might polish up a bit

I really love the honesty and directness of these

Fine Hand-painted Japanese Composition Doll skillful carving and then added the perfectI am not entirely certain if this doll is vintage or antique, but would think sometime 1920s 40s, and I think she is so lovely. Her head, forearms and lower legs are composition, sewn to a cloth torso which seems to be stuffed with sawdust, as there seems to be a tiny hole somewhere from which a tiny bit of it has come out. Some staining to her top and a little wear to the top of the arms, but overall very good condition, with braided hair on the top