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1) Boy's head painted wooden core shoulder length black silk hair. Topknot tied by double strand of white cord. Head mounted on a 1/4" wooden peg which fits into neck cavity of body. 2) Body a central wooden core with grooves into which the brocade…

Wood and silk display dolls. One hand missing on the woman. Other hand holding a pipe. Donor letter: pre-1900 probably 1910-20's.

Embroidered panel silk 29" x 38" peach colored brown silk damask border with floral design. Dragon top middle facing forward with gold couching. Flaming pearl blue and white satin stitch. Blue and white clouds around dragon. Peonies with Peking…

Blue purple and green cotton bands with part of a garment that did not originally belong together sewn to the two bands. Gold couching embroidery of dragons and mountains applied in the 1920's-30's (ident. and dated by Tony Ventura).

Child's silk embroidered vest with yoked front in celadon green with two button closure and bordered in pink and back in rust with blue embroidery and purple lining. Front of vest is yoke style in celadon green silk damask. Outer edges are trimmed in…

One box of six opaque Chinese paintings on pith mounted behind glass: 1) Man in green robe with black and white trim pink hat with black baud and decoration in front. Holds sword in right hand pointing blade into mouth. 2) Seated man wearing blue…

Small thin-walled round lidded cooking pot with flared rim made from brown clay and glazed reddish-brown. The belly of the pot (A) is the widest diameter so that the walls flare out from the rim but taper towards the bottom. There is no foot and the…

Woven bamboo hat, fairly flat which rises sharply to a pointed crown. Outer rim is thick/wide bamboo wrapped with smaller bamboo. Underside is wide leaves covered with unstained widely criss-crossed bamboo; outer rim is reinforced with 3 bamboo ribs.…

Laotian handwoven cotton cloth strip in royal colors; black warp and weft along one side, red weft on side with supplementary weft design (supplementary weft in shiny white, blue, yellow, green, and black);

Green handwoven purse with handles. Decoration on surface in gold metallic, pink, brown, green thread. Pink embroidered trim, with small shells applied as trim. Pattern is stripes and spots. Two long green tassels on bottom. Handwoven, with woven or…