Ornament

Title

Ornament

Description

Ornament Wooden lantern with two miniature wooden dolls inside. Two cross cut pieces of wood with outer bark form top and bottom. Top piece has hole surrounded by white painted ring. Between the two pieces of wood is silk worm cocoon with section removed in front revealing two miniature wood dolls. They have painted black features the left has a blue kimono and brown obi and the right has a red kimono with a green obi. They stand on a platform in the shape of a round wood box with a lid. A wire is anchored on both sides and extends upward through the slice of wood. On top of the ornament is black ink kanji. Condition: The bark on upper wood slice is coming loose.

Identifier

1996.010.152

Collection