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Figure (Jewish lady (formerly called Dutch lady))
1735-1745
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2000.0061.091
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff
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Object Number
2000.0061.091
Object Name
Figure (Jewish lady (formerly called Dutch lady))
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1735-1745
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Underside
Inscription: "X" handwritten in inscribed
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Religion associated
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Enameled
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
16.614 (H) x 8.386 (W) x 4.843 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
42.2 (H) x 21.3 (W) x 12.3 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fuchs, Ronald W. & Howard, David Sanctuary. 2005 Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. 208 p.
• Published: pp. 176-77, fig. 112, c. 1740.Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Published: pp. 252-53, fig. 299, c. 1740)Book: Beurdeley, Michel. 1962 Chinese Trade Porcelain. 219 p.
• Published: p. 91, pl. XVIIIBook: Strober, Eva. 2001 La maladie de porcelaine...: East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong.
• 1700-1720 figures of Europpean men and woman, different models, from Augustus the Strong collection: pp. 58-59, no. 22, email su biscuit (enameled on biscuit porcealin.)Book: Lu, Zhangshen. 2012 Passion for Porcelain: Masterpieces of Ceramics from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• Very similar "Figure of a Jewish Lady" 1735-45, with possible design source: pp. 140-41, no. 029 and fig. 1, "Frankfurthur Jud unt Juden" by Casper Luyken from Abraham a Sancta Clara's Neu eroffnete Wely Gallery (Nuremburg, 1703).Catalogue: Motley, William & Cohen & Cohen. 2014 Hit & Myth.
• Discussion of same Jewess figure, differently painted, and design sources: pp. 68-69, no. 38Catalogue: Sotheby's (auction catalogue).
• Very similar pair of figures: Rockefeller sale (NY), January 18, 2019, lot 321, 1735-45, with design source discussion.