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6 7/8 in. (17 cm.) high
英國私人舊藏
Although these were traditionally referred to as 'Governor Duff' groups, probably after Diederick Duiver, the Dutch Governor of the East India Company from 1729-1731, there is little evidence to support this. Records show that these groups were imported into Europe around 1702 and referred to as 'Dutch families' on cargo sale lists of the English East India Company, published by Geoffrey A. Godden in Oriental Export Market Porcelainand Its Influence on European Wares, London, 1979, no.266. Other similar groups are illustrated by D. S. Howard in The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, pp. 248-9, no. 294; by Rose Kerr and John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, no. 39; and by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, no. 58, p. 107. A similar group is in The British Museum, London, collection number 1930.7-28.566.