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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marote, post: 10021595, member: 84568&quot;]<a href="https://www.princessehof.nl/collectie/azi%C3%AB/mrs-duff" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.princessehof.nl/collectie/azi%C3%AB/mrs-duff" rel="nofollow">https://www.princessehof.nl/collectie/azië/mrs-duff</a></p><p>&quot;<i>Sculpture of female figure, China, circa 1735 - 1740, porcelain, h. 42.5 cm, on loan from a private collection.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. Duff probably forms a couple with a male variant, known as Mr. Duff. It has long been assumed that these figures were based on real people, namely VOC governor Diederik Durven and his wife Anna Catharina de Roo. Governor Durven served the VOC from 1729 to 1731 and was known in English as Governor Duff. We now know that it is not a Dutch couple, but a Jewish couple from Frankfurt.</p><p><br /></p><p>A print from the book <i>Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria</i> (1703) shows a lady wearing exactly the same clothing as Mrs. Duff. The print was drawn by the Dutchman Caspar Luyken (1672 - 1708) for a German client. The book shows various types of costumes from around the world. During the eighteenth century, several of these books appeared, following a fashion trend at the time for exotic things. The book was most likely the model for the Chinese potters in Jingedezhen. They made the model and applied the decoration with great precision, which shows how valuable this object must have been at the time.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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