Antique Japanese Takeda Ningyo Doll Set of two kabuki actors

Description

Antique Japanese
Takeda Ningyo
Doll Set of two
kabuki
actors on the stage. Each figure with a wide stance turning to look at one another. The figures are costumed in silks,
kinran
brocades and
birodo
velvet, one with long trousers,
chirimen
sleeves embroidered in a bamboo fence design carrying two swords at the hip and a stick in his right hand, the other in robes, the outer
birodo
robe dyed iron black with subsequent deterioration couched with dynamic swirl design and some sort of stage prop in the foreground. The heads are carved of wood covered in
gofun
with insets for the hair and detailed painted features expressing the
kabuki
“
mie
” expression. All standing on a traditional
Takeda
style black lacquered wood stage with cutout front panel backed with fabric. Signs of age, deterioration of black
birodo
textile revealing the wire, paper and cotton underside, otherwise fine condition.
10 in. high x 14-1/2 in. wide x 5-1/8 in. deep
14 oz. (380g.)
Edo period, circa 1800.