Wooden puppet: craftsman at a workbench
Marionette puppet: carved wooden puppets on strings: lacquered faces, cloth costumes, tow hair.
A figure sits at a wooden workbench in a workshop: tools and shavings on the table, jars and blanks on the shelves. The light is even daylight. Strings run up from the shoulders.
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From the series “Toy workshop”
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