An unusual polychrome-painted wood figure of an entertainer, Song - Yuan dynasty

Collection of President Franklin D. (1882-1945) and Eleanor (1884-1962) Roosevelt, coll. no. 202 (according to label).

Collection of Mr. Louis Alter 1902-1980), acquired directly from the above before 1962, and thence by descent. Mr. Alter was a musician in New York, who was a personal friend of the Roosevelts since at least the 1940s.