Featured Plaster Nursing Figure

This hand painted plaster figure is 16cm high. It depicts a nursing mother.

It’s very well modelled . I’ve been unable to find anything like it although she came in an auction with a bunch of Shiwan mud men figures from around the 1980s .

Her features are serene almost Guan Yin like.

I’m guessing that she is Chinese and maybe mid 20th century.

Any thoughts?

 

I don't know if this helps but here is another similar one that's marked.
Mikey
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/signed-asian-porcelain-mother-w-baby-20-c-5d142d0bd9

 

an expert of hands and feet

 

Can we have another angle of this weirdo ?

 

Her costume is Korean, which doesn't mean she couldn't have been made outside Korea.

 

That 'weirdo' is her child.

 

I shall stop the humour

the child has very large feet for a child ...

 

Well, the large-footed child is perhaps past infanthood and is a toddler. Or the mother is very small. ☺️

 

the kid is old to be nursing......... but I've heard worse...
the image has a good soul...

 

I'm not saying he's young or old, I'm saying the piece se weird to me
the head and shoulders may pass but the rest leaves a lot to be desired

the feet ,the hands, the childs lips that ressemble a bottle neck ..etc etc

 

Are we going to start posting pictures of our feet next?

 

A piece like this doesn't have to have perfect proportions.
You like Mata Hari (as do I). She was flat-chested and didn't have a perfect woman's waist, yet people found her enchanting and desirable.

 

definitely Korean clothes. The thing I noticed first was that her eybrows are molded in one spot and enameled on somewhere else! It must have been a fashion thing for a while, unless it was a goof at the factory.

 

Thanks for all the comments . I think I’m leaning towards it being a Korean figure as I asked on a Chinese fb forum and Korean was suggested there too. Tentative date c1970