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She was probably intended to be Dutch, although details of her dress correspond to a late seventeenth-century engraving of a Swabian (southern German) peasant. Round her neck she wears a ruff of a type that had passed out of fashion in the Netherlands nearly a century before the figure was made.\r\n\r\nOther versions of this figure are known, from which it is apparent that she was made in a mould and hand-finished before firing, as with some slightly earlier Dehua figures that show somewhat similar style and sculptural conventions. At least one of these other versions is paired with a male companion wearing a falling collar in early seventeenth-century styles. Clearly made for export, such figures were probably intended for display on mantelpieces or brackets in western European interiors. 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This suggests that the porcelain figure was based on earlier prints, and that the craftsman who modelled it had probably never seen a living Dutch or German woman.\r\nThe result is an image as striking and unrealistic as many European representations of Chinese people made around this time.\r\n\r\nPorcelain, painted in enamels\r\n\r\nMuseum no. C.94-1963\r\nBasil Ionides Bequest","date":{"text":"September 2009","earliest":"2009-09-01","latest":"2009-09-30"}}],"partNumbers":["C.94-1963"],"accessionNumberNum":"94","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1963,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP9270","2019LT4570","2019LW3238"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2006-09-21","availableToBook":false}}